From pickup trucks to airplanes, the transportation sector is rapidly embracing electrification. But, as you might imagine, access to space remains the final frontier. The Earth’s gravity is as strong as it is unrelenting. Since the dawn of, well, the space age, the only way to launch a payload into orbit was to strap it to the carefully calibrated bomb that is a rocket engine and hope that the massive chemical explosions remained controlled and kept to the desired
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