Facebook, SpaceX bad news: Cape Canaveral rocket explodes
Smoke billows from the SpaceX launch site. Reuters via NASA TV Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies suffered a setback Thursday when an explosion rocked its launch site in Florida during...
View ArticleSpaceX probing explosion, vows return to launch pad by November
Smoke billows from the SpaceX launch site. Reuters via NASA TV SpaceX says it expects to resume launches as soon as November, avoiding a lengthy delay after its Sept. 1 launch pad explosion grounded...
View ArticleSpaceX identifies cause of Sept. 1 rocket explosion
The explosion on the launch site of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is shown in this image from Cape Canaveral. REUTERS/File Photo A SpaceX rocket that burst into flames on its launch pad at the beginning of...
View ArticleSpaceX founder added to President’s Strategic and Policy Forum
Dublin, Wednesday 31th October 2013: Pictured at the The Web Summit 2013, RDS. Photo by Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media Elon Musk, the chairman and CEO of the Hawthorne-based rocket and spacecraft...
View ArticleHit-and-run horror for 3 injured pedestrians outside SpaceX
Paramedics attend one of the victims. Courtesy OnScene.TV A hit-and-run driver’s vehicle struck three pedestrians outside the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne early Saturday morning. Los Angeles County...
View ArticleTense time for Elon Musk’s SpaceX: First liftoff after explosion
Photo by John Schreiber. Elon Musk’s Hawthorn-based SpaceX announced Monday it plans to return to flight Jan. 8 with a launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara. The scheduled blastoff...
View ArticleElon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launches first rocket since September explosion
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket seconds after its engines ignited Saturday morning. Courtesy SpaceX Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched a rocket Saturday for the first time since an explosion in...
View ArticleTrump’s promise to SpaceX, Tesla founder Musk: Cut taxes, regs ‘massively’
Dublin, Wednesday 31th October 2013: Pictured at the The Web Summit 2013, RDS. Photo by Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media President Donald Trump is promising the head of SpaceX, Tesla and other innovative...
View ArticleElon Musk so sick of traffic, he’s going to build ‘The Boring Company’ tunnel?
Photo via Twitter So, is he serious? Elon Musk — the man behind Tesla and SpaceX — is making some headlines Wednesday after reviving an earlier Twitter discussion suggesting he plans to dig a tunnel so...
View ArticleTrump wants a wall, Musk wants a tunnel: Billionaire battles LA traffic
Dublin, Wednesday 31th October 2013: Pictured at the The Web Summit 2013, RDS. Photo by Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media So, is he serious? Elon Musk — the man behind Tesla and SpaceX — has made headlines...
View ArticleSpaceX’s Elon Musk takes another strategy meeting with President Trump
Dublin, Wednesday 31th October 2013: Pictured at the The Web Summit 2013, RDS. Photo by Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media Elon Musk, the chairman and CEO of the Hawthorne-based rocket and spacecraft...
View ArticleElon Musk’s SpaceX planning to launch Falcon 9 rockets every 2-3 weeks
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. Photo by John Schreiber. Hawthorne-based SpaceX plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks, its fastest rate since starting launches in 2010, once a...
View ArticleSpaceX plans rocket launch to International Space Station
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. Photo by John Schreiber. Hawthorne-based SpaceX will attempt to launch a spacecraft Saturday carrying supplies to the International Space Station, its first launch...
View ArticleSpaceX launch aborted at 13 seconds by second-stage problem
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad. Courtesy SpaceX Hawthorne-based SpaceX on Saturday aborted the launch of a spacecraft carrying supplies for the International Space Station. The Falcon 9...
View ArticleSpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 from historic Apollo-era pad
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket seconds after ignition on Sunday morning. Photo from video Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station on Sunday and...
View ArticleSpaceX gets paying customers for flight around moon in 2018
The Crew Dragon human-rated spacecraft. Courtesy SpaceX Hawthorne-based rocket maker SpaceX announced Monday it plans to send two “private citizens” on a trip around the moon late next year aboard its...
View ArticleBuzz Aldrin plots 2021 Mars landing, human settlement
Buzz Aldrin would be 89 if he were part of a wished-for launch to Mars on July 20, 2019 – the 50th anniversary of his moon landing. But even if he doesn’t become one of the first humans to walk on the...
View ArticleSpaceX wins $96.5M contract to launch military navigation satellite for US...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad. Courtesy SpaceX Hawthorne-based SpaceX has won a $96.5 million contract to launch a military navigation satellite for the U.S. Air Force. SpaceX will...
View ArticleWill SpaceX top guy Elon Musk testify in whistle blower lawsuit?
Smoke billows from the SpaceX launch site. Reuters via NASA TV Elon Musk is famous for promising to send space tourists to the moon and providing big-bucks Americans with expensive Tesla electric cars....
View ArticleSlightly used space rocket makes history: SpaceX sent it up successfully again
A reused Falcon 9 rocket seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. Image from video The first used space rocket to carry a satellite into orbit a second time made history Thursday when it was...
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