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My name is Joe Owen. I head up the worldwide languages ministry at Answers in Genesis.That's Charlie Duke. There were nine missions to the moon. I worked on five of them. In 1978, I became a born again Christian.I came to faith on January 19, 1988. I was selected by NASA in 1996, and I flew four times—once on the space shuttle going to the space station and then three expeditions, each about six months long.Many times, I am introduced as an astronaut, but if I were to describe myself, I certainly wouldn't call myself an astronaut, because the way...

"It will obsolesce all existing launch systems".Elon Musk recently provided the first big update on SpaceX's Mars-bound rocket, Starship, and its competitors are watching on with "a mix of awe and horror", according to a report from Politico.At his latest Starship presentation, SpaceX CEO Musk highlighted the fact that Starship will be reusable over and over again at a fraction of the cost of previous rockets. It's a development that threatens to leave NASA and other competitors in its wake as it launches to the proverbial stratosphere...While it has long been known that Starship would be reusable, the advanced capabilities...