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SpaceX makes aerospace history with successful landing of a used rocket
After more than two years of landing its rockets after launch, SpaceX finally sent one of its used Falcon 9s back into space. The rocket took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this evening.
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The Kremlin is confident Russia can compete with Elon Musk in space
The Kremlin is confident Russia’s state-run space agency can compete with the most ambitious companies in the field, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned the subject of space in his daily press briefing the day after Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched the first ever rocket made from recycled materials into space.
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Rocket Men
The rivalry between two billionaires is reducing the cost of space travel. Tom Standage climbs into the cockpit
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: I’ll fly SpaceX to Mars once Elon Musk’s mom has made the round trip
In a playful “Ask Me Anything” session at Reddit.com, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said that he’s interested in visiting Mars someday, but he has some reservations. “Hi Neil!” said one questioner. “Just wanted to know your thoughts on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 relaunch and landing, and what do you think it means for the future of space travel? Also, would you ever consider to join a one way trip to Mars?”
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Elon Musk’s giant tunnel boring machine arrived at SpaceX – first pictures
With the recent launch of Elon Musk’s latest company, Neuralink, we almost forgot that the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX also recently launched yet another startup: the Boring Company.
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SpaceX delays today’s Falcon 9 launch due to sensor issue, will try again tomorrow
On Monday, SpaceX is slated to do its very first national security mission for the US military — sending a spy satellite into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office. Dubbed NROL-76, the secretive payload is scheduled to go up on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket early Monday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. After launch, SpaceX will attempt to land the Falcon 9’s first stage — the 14-story high core of the rocket that contains the main engines and most of the fuel — on solid ground back at the Cape.
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SpaceX successfully lands its Falcon 9 rocket after launching military satellite
The company’s fourth ground landing
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SpaceX successfully lands its Falcon 9 rocket after launching military satellite
This morning, SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on solid ground again, after launching the vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The vehicle’s first stage — the 14-story core of the rocket that contains the main engines — touched down at the company’s landing pad called Landing Zone 1, located just off the coast of the Cape. It’s the fourth time SpaceX has landed one of its rockets on land, and the 10th time the company has successfully recovered a rocket post-launch.
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Elon Musk to Trump: You quit Paris, so I quit you
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has quit of two of President Trump's business advisory councils after the president announced he will pull the U.S. out of the historic Paris climate agreement.
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Elon Musk Publishes Plans for Colonizing Mars
The billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX wants to make humanity a "multi-planetary species”
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Elon Musk: Launching a Satellite with SpaceX is $300 Million Cheaper
The U.S. Air Force's recently released budget reveals that the cost of a SpaceX launch is dramatically lower than that of the traditionally used United Launch Alliance. As CEO Elon Musk pointed out via Twitter, SpaceX's launch costs are so much lower, the satellites used by the company are "basically free."
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Space X's Trips To Mars Will Pretty Much Be Like A Cruise Ship
Nobody promised space travel would be easy. Well, nobody did until now. Billionaire Elon Musk is planning to make sure everyone who takes a SpaceX trip to Mars will be traveling in style, with “movies, lecture halls, cabins, and a restaurant.”
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SpaceX successfully launches and lands a used rocket for the second time
SpaceX has successfully launched and landed a recycled Falcon 9 rocket for the second time. The rocket’s first stage — the 14-story-tall core that houses the fuel and the rocket’s main engines — touched down on one of the company’s autonomous drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from a launchpad at nearby Cape Canaveral, Florida. It’s the 12th time SpaceX has successfully landed one of these rocket stages out of 17 attempts, and the seventh time it’s performed the feat at sea.
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Musk plans city on Mars
A city on Mars with a million inhabitants could be achievable within 50 years, South African space entrepreneur Elon Musk has forecast, as he laid out plans to turn mankind into a multi-planetary species. The SpaceX founder warned that humans would need to venture away from Earth to avoid a “Doomsday event” and our “eventual extinction”.
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If the US really wants to go to Mars, Elon Musk knows how to bring down the price
“Our nation will return to the moon and we will put American boots on the face of Mars,” US vice president Mike Pence, newly ensconced as the head of the National Space Council, said last week in a speech at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The only problem? The US government’s plan to do this relies on an building an expensive rocket and spacecraft that is scheduled to only fly once a year. That’s been a drain on resources that has delayed design and construction of other needed ingredients...
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Elon Musk Calls for Moon Base
Elon Musk may be focused primarily on Mars, but he'd also like to see a human outpost on a world much closer to home. "To really get the public real fired up, I think we've got to have a base on the moon," the billionaire founder and CEO of SpaceX said today (July 19) at the 2017 International Space Station Research and Development (ISSR&D) conference in Washington, D.C.
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SpaceX may have canceled Red Dragon Mars mission
SpaceX appears to have canceled its planned Red Dragon mission to Mars that was set for no earlier than 2020, possibly in favor of a different approach to landing on the Red Planet.
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After Delays, SpaceX and Boeing Aim to Launch Astronauts Next Year
Back in 2014, SpaceX and Boeing both received contracts under NASA's Commercial Crew Development program to build spacecraft that could carry astronauts to the International Space Station. The program is intended to allow NASA to launch astronauts on American spacecraft again, something that hasn't happened since the last flight of the space shuttle in 2011.
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SpaceX successfully launches and recovers Falcon 9 for CRS-12
SpaceX has successfully launched yet another rocket, this one carrying a Dragon capsule loaded with over 6,400 pounds of cargo destined for the International..
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Elon Musk just revealed what a SpaceX spacesuit looks like
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on Instagram: “First picture of SpaceX spacesuit. More in days to follow. Worth noting that this actually works…”
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