Giulio Prisco on September 28th, 2016.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars and then move on to the planets. Yesterday (September 27), at the International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, hosted by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), Musk announced his long-awaited space colonization plan in a special keynote – full of technical...
Lester Coleman on October 8th, 2015.
Private space travel is moving closer to reality, and an Israeli team has staked its claim in the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. SpaceIL, an Israel-based non-profit working to land a spacecraft on the moon, became the first team to produce a launch contract in the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE competition. XPRIZE...
P. H. Madore on June 29th, 2015.
Space flight is nothing like golf, but if it were, SpaceX’s recent headlines would look like a pro who’d fallen off. An expensive mistake left the International Space Station without a needed shipment of supplies and parts. The unmanned rocket broke apart shortly after liftoff about 27 miles in the air. A little over 5,000...
Alex Gorale on January 20th, 2015.
Google is close to investing in rocket maker SpaceX, according to several people familiar with the talks, creating a formidable alliance in Silicon Valley’s accelerating Internet space race, The Information reports. The purpose of a deal, which is still in the works, is to support the development of SpaceX satellites that could beam...
Neil Sardesai on January 18th, 2015.
Not content with electric cars, space rockets, crazy-fast trains, and more, Elon Musk – entrepreneur and real-life Tony Stark, has revealed plans to build a secondary Internet in space.
Clay Michael Gillespie on January 17th, 2015.
Elon Musk seems to like making headlines every other week, and he’s done it again with his nonchalant announcement of the next steps for his Hyperloop mass transit system. Musk took to Twitter, as he often does with big announcements, telling everyone the next steps for the first ever test track. But like any Musk announcement that seems...
Clay Michael Gillespie on January 16th, 2015.
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX tried landing a rocket on a barge called the Falcon 9. They launched it off and hope to hit their bullseye on the target in the middle of the ocean, and it did. The mission was quite a success, and it went out with a bang.
Clay Michael Gillespie on January 5th, 2015.
An anonymous SpaceX engineer took to the keyboard to answer the question of what it’s like working with Elon Musk recently, divulging secrets of the crazy workplace Musk operates.
Alex Gorale on December 16th, 2014.
Waco City Council will vote Tuesday to grant permission to SpaceX expanding Texas Location. Commissioners could allocate upwards of $1.5m in incentives to the Hawthorne, California-based company. If approved, the measure would bring the American private space transportation company’s total subsidies to $3m. Once committed, SpaceX...