![]() The heightened role of corporate private industry in spaceflight is to be viewed with suspicion, especially from a company headed by the increasingly erratic tycoon Elon Musk. The Dragon spacecraft itself, a partnership between NASA and privately owned SpaceX, generates mixed feelings. ![]() Amid all the darkness, however, many of us turned at least some of our attention in a more hopeful direction in May: up to the skies, where for the first time in nine years a next generation spacecraft launched astronauts from American soil into space. ![]() ![]() Our attention is torn myriad ways: the Covid-19 pandemic the epidemic of police violence and racist murders of Black and Indigenous people the global chaos being sown by US President Donald Trump and his administration. ![]()
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