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NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX


Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.

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