SpaceX Could Become Space Force's No. 1 Defense Contractor

Motley Fool: How SpaceX Could Become Space Force's No. 1 Defense Contractor 

Here's how SpaceX's Starship could evolve from a cargo hauler into a Space Force starcruiser. 

For more than a decade Boeing (NYSE:BA) has operated a reusable spy spacecraft called the X-37B -- mostly in secret. 

Americans got their first glimpse of the vehicle -- which resembles a miniature, 29-foot-long, silicon-coated version of the Space Shuttle -- when it returned from a seven-month maiden flight through Earth orbit to land at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2012. 

Military tech website War on the Rocks calls X-37B "the first true military spaceplane," and predicts that over time, experimental flights with the X-37B will give rise to "massive fleets of very large, maneuverable, and reusable spacefaring vehicles" working for the U.S. Space Force. 

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WNU Editor: SpaceX is IMHO the best positioned company to be Space Force's prime defense contractor. And it does not stop with rockets. I am blown away by Elon Musk's Starlink project and what it will be delivering (link here).

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