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NASA has added SpaceX 's giant Starship rocket to a major commercial contract, putting the world's most powerful launch vehicle in contention for future missions ⁘ even though the shiny spacecraft keeps exploding in mid-air, and has yet to deliver a single payload into space.
On March 28, the American space agency announced that Starship was being added to the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract, which lists all the privately built spacecraft that can be considered for future missions . Starship is the 10th rocket to be added to the contract, which also includes SpaceX's Super Heavy and Falcon 9. Other listed rockets include United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur and Northrop Grumman's Pegasus XL, which has been used by NASA since the early 1990s.
It is unclear which category Starship will be put in. However, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which was the most recent rocket to be added to the NLS II, was initially listed in Category 1, despite successfully making it to orbit on the first attempt in January. This suggests that Starship will likely be put in the same bracket, according to Space News .
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The company's CEO Elon Musk has repeatedly expressed a strong desire to use Starship to send humans to Mars .
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