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2016: The Year We Began Mining the Moon

TO INFINITY

Now that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has managed to land upright, the future of travel and commerce in outer space is bright.

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It came streaking down from the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida, late on Dec. 21—the booster stage of a 224-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket belonging to SpaceX, the California-based space company founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

Blasting orange fire from its tail, the Falcon 9 booster—which had just delivered a...

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