SLS versus Falcon Heavy
A race to the moon between NASA's SLS and Orion (left) and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy and Dragon (right) could be development, based on recent events.

SpaceX’s announcement of a commercial lunar flyby mission sets up the potential for a government-versus-commercial race to the moon in the next few years.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...