Days after SpaceX announced that he had signed on the world's first passenger for a trip around the moon, CEO Elon Musk, on Monday, announced that the passenger is Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. The lunar trip, which will take Maezawa to the moon and back, is scheduled for 2023.
Elon Musk is in the news again over some tweets on Twitter about openly expressing the idea of transitioning Tesla Motors into a private company, prospectively starting stock share prices at $420 per share. The post Elon Musk tweets about privatizing Tesl
When Elon Musk and his team at SpaceX were looking to make their Falcon 9 rocket even more powerful, they came up with a creative idea — keep the propellant at super-cold temperatures to shrink its size, allowing them to pack more of it into the tan
SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA's new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket's navigation systems, the California-based company said.
SpaceX launched a rocket carrying 10 Iridium satellites to orbit, its fifth in a series of eight launches contracted for the communications company as it builds its NEXT constellation network
Hawkish politicians love sticking gifts to big corporations in the yearly National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). So it is no surprise to find an example of cronyism in the Fiscal Year 2018 NDAA, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week.
A lot will have to go right for SpaceX to meet its ambitious goal of launching two people on a mission around the moon before the end of 2018, experts say.