rockets

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SpaceX may be known for building majestic rockets, firing those giant beasts of marvelous engineering into the skies and catching them with chopsticks.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Designing and testing rockets, especially one of Starship’s size, is a lengthy and costly process.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

SpaceX builds rockets and spacecraft, and has become the dominant force in commercial space launches -- regularly sending astronauts to the International Space Station and satellites into orbit.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Meanwhile, its balance sheet shows it has $102bn in assets, such as rockets and other equipment, but also carries $60.5bn of debt.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

The next weekend, Mr. Bykovski met with me and Sherman and O’Dell at the tipple machine shop to teach us the fundamentals of welding and cutting steel so that we could build our own rockets.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam