Articles tagged "spacex"

Golden Spike is having a hard to motivating the crowd to fund its crowdfunded trip to the moon.

It was an impressively fast recovery from what looked for a minute like a fatal failure.

A 72 year old millionaire plans to send the first men to Mars by 2018.

When you think of people who urge humanity to go to the stars, you tend to think of cheery icons like Carl Sagan. But Newt Gingrich had to get his bold ideas about space exploration from someone.

Needless to say, most reality TV stars on Earth might consider sitting this one out.

Checked luggage is included, but there are very strict weight requirements.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 lost an engine during launch but managed an autonomous recovery.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that reusing hardware saves money, though rocket scientists are on the recycling mission too. SpaceX is getting on the reusability bandwagon first with its Dragon capsule (it’s designed to be reused, b…

OPALS: Bringing you high speed communications in space in 2013

About a month ago, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule "landed safely in the Pacific Ocean":http://www.space.com/15939-spacex-dragon-capsule-landing-pacific.html after completing the first ever commercial expedition to the International Space Station. Granted, i…

SpaceX's new Merlin 1D engine might do for the future what von Braun and the F-1 did for the past.

SpaceX' 1st Delivery to the ISS is a success, GIFs rejoice!

h4. Ones and Zeros is Motherboard's weekly investigation into the weird particle accelerator of the world as seen through the eyes of the internet. See last week's "here":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/5/18/ones-and-zeros-facebook-christian-rock-ip…

As we speak, the SpaceX Dragon capsule is hooking up with the International Space Station. That's right folks: NASA and SpaceX have officially welcomed in the private space era. At 9:56 eastern, the robotic arm of the ISS reached out and snatched the…

Long an oasis of innovation and meritocracy, Silicon Valley has often represented all that is pure in capitalism, a place where guys dare to dream big and big dreams come true, making its players outrageously wealthy, but also producing the kinds of

At around 10 minutes into the launch, when the Falcon 9 rocket lifts the Dragon space capsule into orbit, you begin to sense the excitement, spreading across the launch control room in Florida to a more spartan, futuristic-looking mission control roo…

As you might have heard, SpaceX, a commercial space outfit by Elon Mnsk, (that dude that founded "PayPal":https://www.paypal.com/ and "Tesla Motors":http://www.teslamotors.com/), had to abort their ignition sequences just a half-second before lift of…

Alliant Techsystems is poised to take first prize in the commercial space game.

SpaceX's ISS missions has been delayed, making NASA rely on Russia launches a little longer.

Commercial spaceflight is inching closer to reality. "SpaceX":http://www.spacex.com/’s Dragon capsule is set to launch on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia on April 30, 2012. It will do…