The forecast for the next mission by Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX is cloudy — and not just because of the weather. The company is slated for its 13th Falcon 9 launch of the year on Thursday, from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center
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Elon Musk tamped down expectations about SpaceX’s new rocket designed to carry private citizens into space, saying whoever chooses to be among the first passengers will need to be “brave”. The SpaceX Falcon Heavy
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a sensitive mission for the US military and landed the rocket’s booster on land, marking the company’s fifth successful mission of 2017. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying NROL-76, a classified payload for
Larry Page has his flying cars. Sergey Brin shall have an airship. Brin, the Google co-founder, has secretly been building a massive airship inside Hangar 2 at the Nasa Ames Research Centre, according to four people
Apple has gone to space to find additional talent for its augmented reality efforts. The iPhone maker has hired Jeff Norris, a specialist in the new technology from Nasa, to help build future products, according to
Elon Musk’s SpaceX flew a reused rocket to space and back again, a key milestone to reducing launch costs and one day enabling people to live on other planets. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rumbled aloft, deposited a customer’s
If the rocket Elon Musk’s SpaceX expects to launch next week looks familiar, that’s because it is. The Falcon 9 rocket slated to take off from Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida
If all goes as planned, two tourists will crawl into a space capsule at the end of next year and blast off for a week-long trip to the moon and back. It’s the ultimate couple’s vacation, offered exclusively by
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year as it continues to work with Nasa for a planned crewed mission to the International Space Station. The passengers
When astronomers eyeball little stars twinkling through their telescopes, they now know for certain that circling around some of them are worlds not unlike our own. On Wednesday, an international research team using