The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
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Tom McKay
A 10,000-acre bushfire that began just off a Californian Air Force base continues to spread. And it’s heading closer and closer to the base’s rocket launchpads.
![Watch The World’s Fastest Rocket Launch Into Space Live [Updated]](https://imgix.gizmodo.com.au/content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/17/worieq3vmchsme8yzgwm-scaled.jpg?ar=16%3A9&auto=format&fit=crop&q=65&w=800)
Tonight, NASA will send a spacecraft on a seven-year long journey to bring us back some dirt from an asteroid — without ever even landing on it. Watch along with us as it launches at around 9am.
SpaceX has been making good money sending all sorts of non-classified things into space, and has also been making some fantastic highlight reels of the crashes on return. But things have taken a turn for the serious now that SpaceX has won its first contract for a US military launch.
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