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23 space-themed items for the ultimate kids’ room
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Whether you're decorating a nursery or upgrading to a big kid room, there's one theme that always inspires little ones to dream big. Outer space! From comets to rocketships, moon landings to spacewalks, what lies beyond our planet has been a source of wonder since the beginning of time. And with exciting events lined up for 2021 like SpaceX flights and a new Mars rover landing, budding astronauts have a lot to look forward to. It also makes for some incredibly cool decor. Move over woodland creatures and pastel florals. The galaxy is infinite—and so are the space-themed accents that...
Rocket Lab, the world’s most prominent dedicated small satellite launcher, has made significant headway on plans to recover and reuse the booster stage of its Electron rocket, meaning that SpaceX’s reusable Falcon rockets could finally have company.
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Recovering a booster is perhaps where all similarities end, however. While the SpaceX Falcon 9 gracefully guides itself back for a controlled landing on an ocean-going drone ship or land-based landing zone, Rocket Lab’s Electron booster will be snagged straight out of the air by a helicopter with a grappling hook. A screenshot of Rocket Lab’s recet “mid-air recovery” test shows a helicopter outfitted with a specialized grappling hook snagging an Electron booster test article. Recently, Rocket Lab completed what the company called “a major step forward” in plans to achieve full booster recoverability with the successful completion of a...