According to a new report, NASA's moon program hinges on at least fifteen rapid-fire Starship launches from SpaceX. But Kennedy Space Center's aging infrastructure—built decades ago for the Apollo program—is buckling under the strain. Between SpaceX and other commercial launch partners ramping up simultaneously, the aging facilities simply can't keep pace. It's twenty-first-century ambition colliding with twentieth-century infrastructure.

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