Browsing: SpaceX

Facebook’s research unit, Building 8, is working to make it possible for people to type using signals from their brains, part of the lab’s broader effort to free people from their phones. Regina Dugan, hired from Google parent

Internet billionaire and aspiring rocket man Jeff Bezos said he sells US$1bn/year in Amazon.com stock to fund Blue Origin, the company fuelling his dream of sending people into space. “My business model right now for

Elon Musk is planning a first test run late this (northern hemisphere) summer with what his SpaceX bills as the most powerful rocket in the world, a step toward sending two paying tourists around the moon late next year.

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

The motto at billionaire Jeff Bezos’s rocket company is “gradatim ferociter”, Latin for “step by step, ferociously”. The Amazon.com founder sees applying that intensity toward making space travel more like hopping on an aeroplane

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

Intelligent robots are poised to take over the world. Sounds like a bad 1950s sci-fi movie, right? Perhaps not. If technology keeps accelerating at the current rate, robots and artificial intelligence will either displace