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Starship Production Presents Challenge for SpaceX

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If you were looking forward to a day in the not too distant future where you could buy a one way ticket to Mars and head to the Red Planet on a SpaceX rocket to escape what you expect will be a series of growing catastrophes here on Earth, well, you may want to quickly come up with a backup plan. Some news was made over the Thanksgiving holiday when internal communications were leaked out of SpaceX indicating that the company is, perhaps, on the verge of bankruptcy, if production on the Raptor engine isn?t significantly ramped up. It?s an unusually candid look behind the veil at an organization with the highest of hopes, and no matter what preconceived notions you have about Elon Musk, SpaceX, and the very idea of interplanetary travel becoming common within our lifetimes, these leaked messages shed new light on what?s going on at the company.
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