Science
Sunday, 6/28, 02:05 PM
NASA takes its commercial playbook to Mars with a private orbiter
- NASA is extending the public-private model it used to reach the space station and the Moon all the way to Mars, tapping the rocket startup Relativity Space to build and launch an atmospheric orbiter in 2028 — a bet that private industry can take on the Red Planet faster and cheaper, if it can deliver where no company has before.