It was also the climax of a decade-long partnership with NASA to return human spaceflight capabilities to the United States. Boeing's Starliner, which looks similar to SpaceX's Crew Dragon, will first need to re-do a botched flight test that the company tried to carry out one year ago. ULA goes to the Moon, Bezos's orbital rocket takes flightIn the rocket launch business, SpaceX may be facing stiffer competition than ever next year. Funding the futureIt's not clear how many small rocket launch vehicles the business sector actually needs. Musk, who founded SpaceX with the goal of colonizing Mars, promises to keep that action going well into 2021.

Source: CNN December 21, 2020 16:30 UTC