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This Dec. 28, 2017 photo made available by SpaceX shows a Falcon Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. On Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, the rocket's three boosters — 27 engines in all — were tested. SpaceX is aiming for a February launch. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX fires engines on big new rocket in launch pad test

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Disparaging SpaceX without facts

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Taxpayer Money Lost in Space Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Government must come clean about SpaceX

By Peter Weyrich

This Sunday, Jan. 7, 2019 photo made available by SpaceX shows the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., for the &quot;Zuma&quot; U.S. satellite mission. Responding to media reports that the satellite was lost, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says the rocket &quot;did everything correctly&quot; and suggestions otherwise are &quot;categorically false.&quot; (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX says rocket performance OK in secret satellite launch

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this image made with a long exposure the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as seen from in Viera, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. SpaceX has launched a secret satellite codenamed Zuma on its first flight of the new year. (Tim Shortt/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX launches secret satellite Zuma on 1st flight of year

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

This photograph released by SpaceX shows its Falcon 9 rocket before liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calif., Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. The reused SpaceX rocket has carried 10 satellites into space from California, leaving behind it a trail of mystery and wonder. The Falcon 9 booster lifted off from coastal Vandenberg AFB shortly before 5:30 p.m. PST. It carried the latest batch of satellites for Iridium Communications. (SpaceX via AP)

Rocket lights sky as it carries satellites from California

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This photo made available by SpaceX on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2017 shows the new Falcon Heavy rocket in a hangar at Cape Canaveral, Fla. It is scheduled for a test flight in January 2018. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX unveils new Falcon Heavy rocket before January launch

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this image taken from NASA Television, the robotic arm reaches out and captures the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft for docking to the International Space Station, Sunday Dec. 17, 2017. SpaceX launched the Dragon from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday, using a previously flown Falcon rocket. It was the first time SpaceX had flown a recycled rocket with a recycled capsule on top. (NASA via AP)

SpaceX capsule back at space station with pre-Christmas haul

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from newly refurbished Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. The rocket is carrying supplies to the International Space Station. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX 1st: Recycled rocket soars with recycled capsule

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 17, 2015, file image from NASA-TV, the SpaceX Dragon 6 resupply capsule nears the International Space Station. The capsule will be making a return trip to the space station when it is launched on a recycled rocket for NASA on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (NASA-TV via AP, File)

SpaceX delivery delayed few days; 1st reused rocket for NASA

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 17, 2015, file image from NASA-TV, the SpaceX Dragon 6 resupply capsule nears the International Space Station. The capsule will be making a return trip to the space station when it is launched on a recycled rocket for NASA on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. (NASA-TV via AP, File)

SpaceX launching recycled rocket, supply capsule for NASA

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Workers inspect the Orbital ATK Antares rocket as it sits on the launch pad at the NASA Wallops Island flight facility in Wallops Island, Va., Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. The launch of the rocket, which is carrying cargo to the International Space Station, was postponed due to aircraft in the area. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Frozen treats, other supplies rocketing toward space station

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks with Elon Musk, right, Tesla and SpaceX CEO, prior to their meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Erdogan's office did not immediately provide details on the meeting, however it comes days after a consortium of five Turkish businesses, including mobile phone operator Turkcell, launched a joint venture to design and produce a Turkish-made car, a joint venture was launched under Erdogan's urging. (Pool Photo via AP)

Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk meets Erdogan in Turkey

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Elon Musk tweets photo of LA-area transport tunnel

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A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket carrying a Koreasat 5A communications satellite lifts off from at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX racks up another rocket launch, its 16th this year

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Iridium to rely on used SpaceX boosters for next 2 launches

Associated Press

A SpaceX Falcon is launched at Kennedy Space Center, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The unmanned Falcon, recycled following a February flight, blasted off with a satellite. Minutes later, the leftover booster landed on an offshore barge. The dual-mission satellite will be shared by Colorado-based EchoStar and SES, a Luxembourg company. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX launches communications satellite, lands booster

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Missouri group considers Hyperloop transportation route

Associated Press

FILE- In this file photo taken on Thursday, April 28, 2016, A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia. Six decades after Sputnik opened the space era, Russia has struggled to build up on its Soviet-era space achievements and space research now ranks very low among the Kremlin's priorities. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool Photo via AP, File)

60 years after Sputnik, Russian space program faces troubles

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

This artist's rendering made available by Elon Musk on Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 shows SpaceX's new mega-rocket design on the Earth's moon. With the 350-foot-tall spacecraft, Musk announced that his private space company aims to launch two cargo missions to Mars in 2022. (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX: Rocket for moon, Mars and NY-to-Shanghai in 39 mins

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press