President Donald Trump announced during a Thursday cabinet meeting that NASA is “bringing back that whole space flight” program and would be sending “something very beautiful to Mars in the very near future.” Before pivoting to Mars, POTUS praised the recent work of Elon Musk and SpaceX on the Falcon rocket program. “Before me are […]
SpaceX Takes its First Step Toward Selling Americans Internet from Space…
SpaceX aims to launch two satellites of a new constellation on Feb. 18, the start of a network it expects to one day include more than 4,000 orbiting spacecraft beaming the internet to customers below—and generating billions of dollars in new revenue for the rocket maker. Ajit Pai, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, which […]
SpaceX Launches World’s Most Powerful Rocket Toward Mars…
The world’s most powerful rocket, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, blasted off Tuesday on its highly anticipated maiden test flight, carrying CEO Elon Musk’s cherry red Tesla roadster to an orbit near Mars. Screams and cheers erupted at Cape Canaveral, Florida as the massive rocket fired its 27 engines and rumbled into the blue sky over the […]
Highly Classified Spy Satellite Is a “Total Loss” After SpaceX Mission Fails…
On Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. EST, Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the secretive Zuma satellite into space aboard its Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral. However, less than a day later, the WSJ reports that the secretive spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman for the U.S. government military industrial complex, and worth billions “is presumed to […]
SpaceX Rocket Launch Spooks Californians…
A flash of bright light over Palm Springs had social media buzzing Friday evening, but don’t fret, it’s not an alien attack. All indications are that the light is coming from the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara. Many in the desert took […]
Elon Musk Wants to Launch Manufacturer of Nice Cyborgs…
The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday — the same day as the theater opening of Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D — that Musk is sponsoring a new start-up named Neuralink Corporation, which has already raised the first $27 million of its $100 million goal to create a system that will implant electrodes in human […]
There’s Something Familiar About This Rocket Elon Musk Wants to Send to Space…
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 Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, has flown before, marking the first time Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will refly one of the 14-story-tall boosters it recovered from past […]
Trump To Send NASA Back To The Moon In 2019…
NASA will honor a request from the Trump administration and spend the next month studying how to return astronauts to the moon’s orbit. America’s storied space agency will study the feasibility of converting the recent test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule into a new crewed lunar mission, propelling two astronauts […]
SpaceX Launches 1st Private Rocket from Historic NASA Pad — Then Sticks a Landing…
SpaceX has launched the first private rocket from the same historic site that saw some of NASA’s greatest space missions, then landed a booster nearby in a resounding success. The California-based company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station today (Feb. 19) at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) […]
Galactic Gold Rush: The Tech Companies Aiming to Make Space Mining a Reality…
In 2014, the financial services site Motley Fool estimated the mineral wealth of the moon to be between $150 quadrillion and $500 quadrillion…The moon, for example, is abundant in Helium-3, an extremely rare element on Earth that could theoretically be used as fuel in future nuclear fusion plants…But the real gold, at least initially, is […]