Moon First, Mars Later: The Fast Feedback Path to a Spacefaring City

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Musk’s Moon-first pivot isn’t retreat – it’s iteration. Build the ops stack nearby, then take the hardened system to Mars.

When Rockets Meet Robots: The xAI–SpaceX Mashup and Its Cosmic Comedy

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SpaceX absorbs xAI, fusing rockets, satellites, AI, and X into one system – and revealing the promise, risks, and comedy of AI at cosmic scale.

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How we reason about life beyond Earth: zero-one-infinity intuition, the Drake Equation, and a Confidence of Life Detection scale.

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ISS medical evacuation: Crew Dragon splashes down, returning astronauts for an on-orbit health issue; station operates with reduced crew.

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Europe’s space safety focus risks ceding commercial leadership to US and China—sustainability matters, but bold market ambition is missing.