The space industry is weighing ambitious hiring against heritage

Published on July 10, 2026
A series of momentous landings in the space industry. Here, SpaceX Super Heavy Booster 12 approached the Mechazilla chopstick arms for a RTLS landing on Starship Flight Test 5. Credit: Steve Jurvetson via Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Space is hard, as the decades-old adage goes. For much of the industry’s history, “rocket science” was as much a barrier to entry as a byword for difficulty. But now […]

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