Freed from his daily obligations at Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos is expected to turn up the heat on his space venture, Blue Origin, as it faces a pivotal year and fierce competition from Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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No one has visited the moon since 1972. But with the advent of commercial human spaceflight, the urge to return is resurgent and generating a new space race.
A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Texas on Tuesday, in a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous test rocket.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight later this year, to be led by a technology entrepreneur who will be joined by three other people.
Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a US$100-million prize for development of the “best” technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions.
Elon Musk, the outspoken South African-born entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is in discussions with investors to raise another round of funding and seeks to double its valuation to as much as $92-billion, according to a report.
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SpaceX’s Starship prototype exploded while attempting to land on Wednesday after an otherwise successful test launch from the company’s rocket facility in Boca Chica, Texas, live video of the flight showed.
Jeff Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, will take the first woman to the moon’s surface, he said, as Nasa nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024.