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A lot of things happened this week in the world of The Verge, and we have some first - hand experience to share.This week on The Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul, welcome science reporter Loren Grush back to the show to tell us what it was like to watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launch in person, as well as meeting SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.Also, Dieter got an exclusive look at Intel's new smart glasses, and Nilay reviewed Apple's HomePod, so they share their experiences with the technology and discuss what it means for the rest of the market.There's a lot more in between that — like Paul's weekly segment «USB - C - crets» (I think that's how you spell it)-- so listen to it all, and you'll get it all.02: 17 - Intel made smart glasses that look normal20: 40 - Apple HomePod review44: 28 - SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch with Loren Grush1: 07:57 - Paul's weekly segment «USB - C - crets» 1:11:44 - The Uber - Waymo trial: greed, ambition, and robot cars1: 15:01 - Inside the desperate fight to keep old TVs alive

An image of a Soyuz rocket launch in Kazakhstan, which Trevor Paglen sent into space on a communications satellite in 2012 as part of his series «The Last Pictures.»

The difference is actually quite staggering, and the higher framerate allows for the design of the game to really shine through — from blue skies and sandy beaches to little flourishes like a rocket launch in the Canyon stage.

A Chinese competitor to SpaceX, One Space Technology, plans its first commercial rocket launch in 2018.

NASA has released the results of its inquiry into what went wrong during SpaceX's catastrophic CRS - 7 mission rocket launch in 2015.

The aerospace startup, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has successfully pulled off 16 rocket launches in that last year, about double the amount from 2016.

Starting with the most recent, here is a look at North Korea's defiant rocket launches in 2017, which often provoked angry responses from Trump:

The aerospace company, founded by billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, has pulled off 16 rocket launches in 2017.

In June, SpaceX successfully launched two rockets into space, surpassing the previous record of eight rocket launches in a single year.

After several failures, North Korea put its first satellite into space with a long - range rocket launched in December 2012, and has since launched another satellite on a similar rocket.

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And while rocket launches in and of themselves are nothing new, what SpaceX did with the Falcon >>

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On Aug. 14, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) in its Dragon spacecraft.

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Some of our customers are conservative and they want to see BFR fly several times before they're comfortable launching in it, so what we plan to do is to build ahead, and have a stock of Falcon 9 and Dragon vehicles, so that customers can be comfortable if they want to use the old rocket, the old spacecraft, they can do that, we'll have a bunch in stock.

«We wanted to be the first student group in the world to launch a rocket into space,» Ellis says of the friends» time at the University of Southern California.

To be fair, rockets and their missions vary widely, but $ 40 million for a launch still represents a relative bargain in the industry.

SpaceX, which launched the mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, repeatedly defended its equipment in the weeks following Zuma's loss.

Small rockets — typically priced between $ 2 million to $ 5 million per launch — have been a dominant theme this year, especially thanks to Rocket Lab's first orbital launch of its Electron vehicle in January.

The BE-3 engine powers the New Shepard rocket, which launched, landed and successfully deployed an unmanned capsule in December.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Musk notched a milestone in space on Tuesday by successfully launching the most powerful commercial rocket in the world with a Tesla Roadster sports car on board to demonstrate the kind of payload it can handle.

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its new Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time Tuesday, a major milestone in the company's quest to grow its customer base and fund its vision of making life multiplanetary.

Following the launch, SpaceX did something never before seen in space history: It re-landed multiple rocket cores back on earth.

The aerospace company says the launch vehicle, the first of its kind for SpaceX, is the most powerful rocket in the world today.

It will be able to withstand stronger winds and manipulate the rocket with more speed, which in turn will allow for more launches in a given time frame.

In December 2015, SpaceX did something no commercial aerospace company had done before: It launched a satellite into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, then safely landed the rocket's lower half, called a first - stage booster, on a launchpad.

In March it made industry history by successfully launching and landing a reusable rocket; six months before that, it watched as one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded during refueling for a so - called test fire.

For years, private space programs consisted of daring engineers in the middle of the desert attempting to launch one rocket after another.

The original timetable, proposed in 2011, put the rocket's arrival at SpaceX's West Coast launch location — Vandenberg Air Force Base in California — at before the end of 2012.

In March, SpaceX, into which Musk has poured $ 100 million, launched a rocket 180 miles above Earth.

And in order to accomplish this, he is working on a «reusable rocket» called the Mars Colonial Transporter, according to Aeon, which differs from traditional launch systems that expend upon deployment.

The mission will launch using a Falcon 9 rocket, which will return to land on the SpaceX autonomous ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 minutes after liftoff.

They constructed a rocket which could theoretically launch, release a payload, and land vertically minutes after take - off in order to be refueled and launched again at a later time, indefinitely.

After SpaceX's first launch back in 2006, Elon Musk spoke with CNBC about the future of his rocket company.

A SpaceX rocket sits on launch pad 39A as it is prepared for the NROL - 76 launch on April 29, 2017 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Instead, Facebook opted to lease broadband onboard Spacecom's AMOS - 6 satellite, which was destroyed when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded during fueling before launch in 2016.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on a supply mission to the International Space Station from historic launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 19, 2017.

Following the conclusion of its investigation into an explosion last year in September, Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technology Corp., or SpaceX, will take its rocket to the launch pad again on Sunday,

In July the U.S. Air Force is expected to award three suppliers with contracts for next - generation rocket designs under the Pentagon's launch services agreements program, with ULA, SpaceX, Orbital and Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin as the likely competitors, Jefferies said.

When Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of electric - car company Tesla, founded SpaceX back in 2002, he probably didn't envision that his company, which designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, would be responsible for delivering better coffee to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).

That's what Planet Labs, an earth - imaging company that lost 26 satellites in the Antares rocket explosion Tuesday, said about the launch failure.

In contrast, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, lists the base price of a Falcon 9 rocket launch on its website at $ 62 million.

Science website Ars Technica reports that the New Glenn will produce 3.85 million pounds of thrust at launch — far more than the most powerful rocket currently in operation, United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy, which has a launch thrust of about 2.1 million plaunch — far more than the most powerful rocket currently in operation, United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy, which has a launch thrust of about 2.1 million pLaunch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy, which has a launch thrust of about 2.1 million plaunch thrust of about 2.1 million pounds.

The long - range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong - 12 (Mars - 12) is launched during a test in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017.

United Launch Alliance has dropped the price of its workhorse Atlas 5 rocket flights by about one - third in response to mounting competition from rival SpaceX and others, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.

In 2017, Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to send its seven - seat Dream Chaser spacecraft into orbit, while Boeing will launch the most powerful space rocket ever built — the one that will launch NASA / Lockheed's Orion and crew to an undetermined destination beyond orbit in 202In 2017, Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to send its seven - seat Dream Chaser spacecraft into orbit, while Boeing will launch the most powerful space rocket ever built — the one that will launch NASA / Lockheed's Orion and crew to an undetermined destination beyond orbit in 202in 2021.

Jeff Bezos» rocket company Blue Origin last month announced its first six launch contracts for its still - in - development New Glenn orbital rocket.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reacts during the long - range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong - 12 (Mars - 12) test launch in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 15, 2017.

The space agency is also in an ever - present budget pinch — and behind schedule in building its own super-heavy-lift rocket, called Space Launch System.