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NASA picked Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space to fly to Mars. It has never reached orbit.
NASA is partnering with Relativity Space, the rocket company run by former Google chief Eric Schmidt, to fly a science mission to Mars. Announced on June 17, the mission is called Aeolus, the first flight in Relativity’s new Interplanetary…
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