Aerodynamics and the physics of sonic booms are better understood.
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The sonic booms also caused panic in Saida, residents said.
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Sonic booms, as usual, rattled the area around the launch site.
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It will still create sonic booms, though quieter than the Concorde's.
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Beyond that, sonic booms also produce blasting bursts of sound waves that jolt buildings.
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If all goes well, NASA's experimental plane will turn sonic booms into muted thumps.
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"The work that NASA's doing might help that [sonic booms]," said van der Linden.
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Fighter jets flew low over Istanbul, setting off sonic booms that felt like airstrikes.
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As the boosters came back to Earth, sonic booms announced their return to our planet.
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My delight was punctuated by six sonic booms — a thank you from the returning boosters.
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F-16's zoomed low, creating sonic booms that were initially thought to be explosions.
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Military aircraft routinely conduct supersonic flights but the sonic booms are rarely felt on ground.
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One user was able to record his garage door shaking during one of the sonic booms.
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The sonic booms are so powerful that the Air Force has compensated homeowners in Alamo, Nev.
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NASA is interested in sonic booms because it is trying to create designs for quieter supersonic aircraft.
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Over the next hour-and-a-half, at least nine sonic booms were recorded by the USGS.
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This means sonic booms would reverberate in communities below as these jets exceeded the speed of sound.
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Sonic booms are loud sounds similar to that of an explosion that can be generated by supersonic flights.
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Smith said NASA has been working on aerodynamic techniques to achieve smoother pressure changes to minimize sonic booms.
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These aircraft will also pollute our skies and, with their sonic booms, break the calm we all need.
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As if skeet shooters fired their 12-gauges in symphonic harmony, four sonic booms punched through the air.
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Every Sunday the East German Air Force made sonic booms to remind us of how close they were.
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Why does everybody think we're going to be able to assault hundreds of millions of people with sonic booms?
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Poor Oklahoma City experienced sonic booms eight times a day for six months in 1964 during an FAA test.
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Scholl said the bill would definitely address the issue of sonic booms overland but predicting the timeline was tricky.
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Shockwaves are beautiful The speed of sound (not the Coldplay song) is associated with sonic booms and supersonic jets.
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Sonic booms are caused by an object traveling faster than the speed of sound (about 0003 mph at sea level).
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The aircraft caused nine sonic booms over the course of an hour and a half, starting shortly before 1:30 p.m.
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The U.S. firm announced key technical and legal appointments and claimed U.S. laws about sonic booms could change early next year.
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The rattling sonic booms the supersonic planes produce is a challenge for start-ups that want to revive supersonic passenger travel.
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Sonic booms are thunder-like noises created when planes displace air and create powerful shockwaves, some of which slam into the ground.
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The US Air Force even tested whether sonic booms could crack eggs in chicken coops or stop minks and turkeys from reproducing.
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In 1973 the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), worried about loud sonic booms, banned civil aircraft from flying at supersonic speeds above America.
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Reducing sonic booms to an acceptable level would allow overland flights, which should make the return of supersonic passenger travel more plausible.
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Christine Darden, now 73 and retired, had worked her way out of NASA's computing pool to lead engineering research into sonic booms.
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Then NASA and Honeywell made more super speed news by claiming they've figured out how to reduce the noise from sonic booms.
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While meteors and fireballs both make sonic booms, meteors are generally much smaller and therefore quieter as they pass through the atmosphere.
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But in the recent years, both NASA and smaller startups have been developing new supersonic planes that produce much, much softer sonic booms.
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The planes circled above the city to taunt us, then flew closer, making our tables tremble from the force of their sonic booms.
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Sonic booms are caused by air piling up in front of various parts of the plane, particularly its nose, wings and engine inlets.
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The rockets fall out of sight behind the trees, it seems like the whole crowd is holding its breath for the sonic booms.
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But governments would not allow the Concorde to fly over land in order to protect their citizens from the sonic booms the plane emitted.
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Watched it arc across the sky; watched the two boosters return safely to the landing pads like a video game; heard the sonic booms.
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NASA wants to prove that it can fly a plane faster than the speed of sound without blasting American neighborhoods below with sonic booms.
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"Minutes before the shuttle touched down you heard dual sonic booms, and when you heard them, you knew the shuttle was close," Chakeres says.
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So fresh testing corridors are being negotiated in Utah that will require a new regional political agreement about the noise of trailing sonic booms.
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Sonic booms, which sound similar to an explosion or thunderclap, occur when objects such as supersonic aircraft travel faster than the speed of sound.
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But sonic booms alone didn't kill the SST and Concorde, business professor Mel Horwitch, author of Clipped Wings: The American SST Conflict, told BuzzFeed News.
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Parts of North America and Western Europe could experience sonic booms every five minutes if supersonic jets become commercialized, a new study said on Wednesday.
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The defense giant is working to produce an aircraft capable of reaching the speed of sound without breaking the sound barrier — thereby preventing sonic booms.
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So when a neutrino travels through water, "it will produce light in the same way that Concord used to produce sonic booms," said Dr Uchida.
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had barred Concorde jets from landing at Kennedy, in part because of concerns about sonic booms.
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A side effect of traveling this quickly is sonic booms — the noise emitted when an object traveling through the air breaks the speed of sound barrier.
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Yeah, don't worry about it — it was just a series of "at least 9 sonic booms" recorded over the course of an hour and a half.
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Preceded by the flames of their rockets, followed by their sonic booms, the slender towers touched down on neighbouring landing pads a fraction of a second apart.
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NASA hopes to fund an "X-Plane" that can travel faster than the speed of sound while not rumbling the cities and towns below with sonic booms.
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Since objects from space can hit the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 mph, which is far faster than the speed of sound, sonic booms are inevitable.
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The new images, in addition to being beautiful, will help NASA design jets capable of producing gentle rumbles instead of loud sonic booms when breaking the sound barrier.
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Only minutes after liftoff, twin sonic booms echoed across Kennedy Space Center as the first two Falcon Heavy boosters landed about nine miles away from the launch pad.
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The costly planes were doomed by their speed: The jets created sonic booms when they broke the 767 mph sound barrier, sending thunderous rumbles to the land below.
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They'll see something like "A Quiet Place" in a packed multiplex, its spell broken by the sonic booms of "Pacific Rim: Uprising" bleeding in from the next auditorium.
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Concorde, which had a cruising speed of 1,350 mph, or Mach Two, was retired because of a lack of profitability as well as overland restrictions on sonic booms.
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Ever since the 21970s, NASA has been wrestling with the math around the pressure waves that create aircraft sonic booms, trying to figure out how to reduce them.
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Jets from Akinci piloted by the rebels roared low over Istanbul and Ankara repeatedly during the chaos of Friday night, shattering windows and terrifying civilians with sonic booms.
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But NASA has been developing the supersonic plane for years in pursuit of technology that would enable affordable supersonic transportation without the loud sonic booms that come with it.
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If it was a military exercise and not a very poorly executed Cloverfield marketing campaign, it wouldn't be the first time the military blasted US residents with sonic booms.
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Among NASA's many other objectives, Bridenstine said the space agency is also looking to develop hypersonic jets capable of exceeding the speed of sound without causing disruptive sonic booms.
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"There are no reports of any damage or injuries—just a lot of light and few sonic booms," Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said in a statement.
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A second problem, meanwhile, is that whenever the Concorde traveled faster than the speed of sound — about 767 miles per hour — it created noisy sonic booms in its wake.
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For supersonic travel to truly conquer the entire world, someone would have to take the next step and develop a plane that doesn't produce terrifying sonic booms over land.
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The reason you don't hear sonic booms more often — the audible effect of an object breaking the sound barrier — is that it's illegal in the United States for civilian aircraft.
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NASA and American multinational conglomerate Honeywell say they now know how to reduce sonic booms when flying a supersonic aircraft over land following the completion of a two-year study.
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Multiple sonic booms rocked part of southern New Jersey on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, with tremors leaving people in the area thinking there might be an earthquake.
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"I waited for the sonic booms of the approaching shuttle, and once I heard them, it was a matter of minutes before I would see the shuttle approaching," he says.
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Some eight minutes after launch, a pair of sonic booms rocked the area as the two side boosters set down in near synchrony on two landing pads at Cape Canaveral.
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In 2011, an FAA official gave a public presentation explaining that research on silencing sonic booms has progressed far enough that it may be time to consider a noise standard.
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Building launch pads at sea assuages concerns about annoying city dwellers with the noise, sonic booms, and vibrations that come with hurling rockets into the sky, but brings up another concern.
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"Oklahoma City was selected as a place supportive of the aviation industry, and people there still didn't like sonic booms," historian David Suisman of the University of Delaware told BuzzFeed News.
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Capable of traveling at more than 15 times the speed of sound, hypersonic missiles arrive at their targets in a blinding, destructive flash, before any sonic booms or other meaningful warning.
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Since 1973, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned civilian aircraft from flying faster than sound over land, to avoid the house-rattling sonic booms that the Concorde used to make.
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SST supporters, meanwhile, made arguments for the plane based on economic and national prestige, calling sonic booms "The Sound of Security" and arguing that mild ones posed little threat of damaging homes.
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Those regions would be exposed to between 150 and 250 sonic booms per day, or up to one boom every five minutes over a 16-hour flight day, according to the report.
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The bill would also authorize a return of "supersonic" transport with reduced sonic booms, and provides for an additional $1.68 billion in immediate funding for disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Florence.
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The results were a disaster for the US Supersonic Transport (SST) program, a 1960s bid to build a supersonic jetliner, changing sonic booms from a minor annoyance to the central objection to supersonic travel.
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Sonic booms can be heard in different locations at different times, the Geological Survey said on Twitter, because the shock wave travels through the air with the plane as it moves at supersonic speed.
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Weather modification has a long, sordid history and hurricanes have inspired some of the more far-fetched proposals, from bombarding cyclones with sonic booms from aircraft to beaming down microwaves from space into nascent storms.
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I wasn't fast enough to start recording before their landing retros ignited, and even if I had been, the shot would have been compromised by my startlement when we were struck by the sonic booms.
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Test flights won't start until at least 2020 NASA began soliciting concepts for supersonic test aircraft last year, with a specific focus on planes that could break the sound barrier without creating massive sonic booms.
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An isolated series of sonic booms shook New Jersey in late January—but that was an isolated incident brought on by several fighter jets breaking the sound barrier around the same time above the area.
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Throughout the night of July 15, terrified Turks in Istanbul and Ankara listened to sporadic gunfire, explosions and the sonic booms of low-flying jets over their apartment blocks, rattling buildings and blowing out windows.
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Weather modification has a long, sordid history, and hurricanes have inspired some of the more far-fetched proposals, from bombarding cyclones with sonic booms from aircraft to beaming down microwaves from space into nascent storms.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli jets flew low over the city of Saida in southern Lebanon on Sunday causing sonic booms that broke windows and shook buildings for the first time in years, security sources and residents said.
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But Bob Smith, president of Honeywell's Mechanical Systems, said Tuesday that while the problem of sonic booms over populated areas has been a problem since the early days of Concorde, it could be about to change.
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Ever since 1973, the FAA has banned all civilian aircraft from flying faster than the speed of sound over land, on account of the noisy sonic booms the Concorde jet made when it broke the sound barrier.
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A series of earthshaking noises that left some residents on the East Coast wondering if they had lived through an earthquake on Thursday afternoon were sonic booms caused by the testing of a fighter jet, officials said.
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Eastern time, its powerful boosters lighting up the Space Coast with fiery trails, and later creating loud sonic booms as two of its flaming launch vehicles touched down successfully on landing pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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In his inaugural interview in 1965, Dr. Swinger described some of the institute's projects, including a plan to make commercial use of sonic booms and a particle accelerator that would run between the scientific citadels of Berkeley, Calif.
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Industry figures are still debating whether regular supersonic flights, banned over the United States in 1973 by the Federal Aviation Administration, are feasible around modern cities due to the shock waves from the sonic booms the planes create.
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The fight allows Coogler and his retinue of CGI artists to imagine how vibranium energy can peel back a car's frame as if it were a shrimp shell, or what bodies look like when they're smacked with sonic booms.
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All three firms think that improvements in materials, engine design and the understanding of aerodynamics mean their proposed craft can be operated profitably and without too much discomfort, in the form of sonic booms, to those on the ground below.
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It would be much better for the agency to set guidelines ahead of time on what type of overland sonic booms would be acceptable — so that companies can have some certainty and know what to aim for in developing new designs.
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And fears about the noise created by the sonic booms they create—the result of flying faster than the speed of sound—have led to regulations that restrict supersonic flights, most significantly in the United States, which bans them over its landmass.
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As the army closed off bridges in Istanbul and fighter jets set off sonic booms over the city, renegade soldiers attacked government sites across Ankara, including the military headquarters, where they captured the three top military officers who had been briefed that afternoon.
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Yet each is made entirely of glass, and decades of damage due to soot from the building's former coal heating, degradation of glue, ultraviolet light, sonic booms, and wayward visitors getting too close left the delicate works in need of conservation and a revamped home.
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President Trump's reflexive use of official statements to lie about facts large and small, and his directing of his staff to do the same through the media, are redolent of the Nixon White House, even as Washington shakes almost daily to the sonic booms of revelations.
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As the Dragon cargo ship began its two-day journey to the station, the main section of the Falcon 9 booster rocket separated and flew itself back to the ground, touching down a few miles south of its seaside launch pad, accompanied by a pair of sonic booms.
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Yet as Turks in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and other urban centers strained to differentiate the sounds of explosive devices from the sonic booms of F-16s on July 15, 2016, they were most shocked by another sound, at once familiar and deeply startling: the Islamic call to prayer.
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But Concorde, although a technological marvel for its time, was never a commercial success: the 14 aircraft that saw service were heavily subsidised by British and French taxpayers; they had limited range and guzzled fuel flying subsonically, which they were largely forced to do over land because of their sonic booms.
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The reason the XVS is even necessary is that the X-59 will feature a totally new, unique design that emphasizes a much more contoured look versus current commercial aircraft, which is how it aims to achieve its quiet flight and avoid loud sonic booms when it actually goes supersonic.
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The Falcon Heavy's achievement, marked resoundingly with thunderous sonic booms following twin booster touchdowns at Cape Canaveral, was only upstaged by Starman—a doomed mannequin at the wheel of Elon Musk's Roadster Elon Musk's long-term plan for SpaceX is to get humans off of Earth and on to Mars—but what does the company's recent progress say about that goal?
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