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SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System
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Elon Musk Will Name the First Mars-Bound Craft After a Mega-Famous Sci-Fi Ship
The name of the first Mars-bound SpaceX craft will be named The Heart of Gold, in honor of the spaceship commandeered by Zaphod Beeblebrox in Douglas Adams’s mega-famous science fiction novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. During a question-and-answer session after his keynote speech at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Musk revealed his desire to name at least one SpaceX ship The Heart of Gold.
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars in six years
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has outlined his highly ambitious vision for manned missions to Mars, which he said could begin as soon as 2022 – three years sooner than his previous estimates. However, the question of how such extravagantly expensive missions would be funded remains largely in the dark.
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Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation
The long-running feud between Elon Musk’s space company and its fierce competitor United Launch Alliance took a bizarre twist this month when a SpaceX employee visited its facilities at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and asked for access to the roof of one of ULA’s buildings. About two weeks earlier, one of SpaceX’s rockets blew up on a launchpad while it was awaiting an engine test.
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Sabotage speculation gathers around SpaceX explosion
The recovered first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is transported to the SpaceX hangar at launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida May 14, 2016. Sabotage speculation gathers around SpaceX explosion. Rumors of potential sabotage are gathering around the investigation of the explosion during a recent SpaceX launch test. SpaceX has been investigating the early September failure of a Falcon 9 rocket that caught fire and exploded on a Cape Canaveral launch pad just days before it was scheduled to launch.
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Boeing CEO Vows to Beat Musk to Mars
Boeing Co. once helped the U.S. beat the Soviet Union in the race to the moon. Now the company intends to go toe-to-toe with newcomers such as billionaire Elon Musk in the next era of space exploration and commerce. Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sketched out a Jetsons-like future at a conference Tuesday, envisioning a commercial space-travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less. And Boeing intends to be a key player in the initial push to send humans to Mars, maybe even beating Musk to his long-time goal.
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Elon Musk Is Right: We Can Insure Against Extinction by Colonizing Space
Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth? You’ve likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space exploration delivers perspective, inspiration, and understanding. Because it's the final frontier. Because it's there. What you haven’t heard is anything to inspire a sense of urgency. Indeed, NASA’s struggle to defend its existence and funding shows how weak these justifications sound to a public that cares less about space than seemingly more pressing needs.
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The First Humans on Mars | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
Elon Musk’s SpaceX program proposes that 100 people could be sent to colonize Mars within 10 years. What might that colony look like?
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NASA: We're Not Racing SpaceX to Mars
If Elon Musk's SpaceX can get to Mars and bring samples back to Earth before the United States can get there, it would be cause for celebration not lament, said NASA's new science chief. "If Elon Musk brought the samples in the door right now I'd throw him a party out of my own money," Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's newly named associate administrator for science, told reporters Monday.
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Elon Musk wants to cover the world with internet from space
The Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, is planning to put more than 4,000 satellites in orbit in order to blanket the Earth with internet access. SpaceX, the privateer space company led by Musk, is requesting permission from the US government to operate a massive network of 4,425 satellites - plus “in-orbit spares” - to provide high-speed, global internet coverage. Documents filed with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday propose an initial launch of 800 satellites to create an orbiting digital communications array to cover the US, including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
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United Launch Alliance unveils website that lets you price out a rocket ‘like building a car’
This morning, United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno unveiled a new website that allows satellite makers to figure out what it will really cost to launch a vehicle on one of ULA’s rockets.
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Rocket men: why tech’s biggest billionaires want their place in space
Forget gilded mansions and super yachts. Among the tech elite, space exploration is now the ultimate status symbol
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SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch
The US SpaceX rocket company resumes operations after a launch pad explosion in September.
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SpaceX Halts Rocket Launch 10 Seconds Before Planned Liftoff
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. halted the launch of its second rocket in as many months on Saturday, about 10 seconds before its scheduled liftoff.
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SpaceX Falcon lifts off from historic Kennedy Space Centre
A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasts off from a historic NASA launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre.
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SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year
We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow.
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SpaceX to fly two space tourists around the moon in 2018
Elon Musk said two tourists will travel around the moon in 2018 with SpaceX.
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SpaceX Targets 2018 for Manned Mission Around the Moon and Beyond
NEWS ANALYSIS: Elon Musk says SpaceX will prepare for a mission in 2018 that will take two tourists around the moon and into deep space before returning them safely to earth.
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Buzz Aldrin says this is the problem with Elon Musk’s plans for Mars
The legendary astronaut has some advice for the visionary CEO of SpaceX.
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Live: Historic SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from Kennedy Space Center
Follow live as SpaceX attempts to launch and land a "flight proven" Falcon 9 rocket with the SES-10 communications satellite from Kennedy Space Center. Today's launch window opens at 6:27 p.m. and closes at 8:57 p.m.
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