SpaceX Announces Plans To Send Dragon Spacecraft To Mars As Soon As 2018
Hawthorne-based aerospace company SpaceX announced plans Wednesday to send one of the company's Dragon spaceships to Mars as soon as 2018.
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Hawthorne-based aerospace company SpaceX announced plans Wednesday to send one of the company's Dragon spaceships to Mars as soon as 2018.
Tesla Motors said that worldwide orders for its new lower-priced Model 3 electric car have hit 325,000. CEO Elon Musk on Thursday added on Twitter that the number is still rising.
Worldwide orders for the new lower-priced Tesla electric car hit 276,000 over the weekend, surprising even the company's CEO who says it may force Tesla to open another factory.
The Model 3 is less than half the cost of Tesla's previous models. It will go on sale next year.
Billionaire Elon Musk and actress Talulah Riley are making another attempt to end their second marriage.
Tesla says it's "committed to being able to serve its customers in Michigan and is working with the legislature to accomplish that."
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his company will eventually start making some of its electric cars in China.
CEO Elon Musk posted on Instagram a video showing the rocket landing on a barge off Southern California, toppling over and exploding.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk rolled out the all-electric SUV at his company's Fremont factory at about 8:50 p.m. Tuesday.
Southern California based SpaceX on Monday released a preliminary summary addressing the loss of their Falcon 9 launch vehicle and failure of the CRS-7 mission that occurred in June.
A SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station erupted Sunday shortly after liftoff.
Billionaire Elon Musk wants to jump-start his Hyperloop high-speed transit system.
After a pair of delays, SpaceX, the space transport company based in Hawthorne, California, successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, propelling the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) deeper into space than the company had ever ventured before.
SpaceX has raised $1 billion from Google and Fidelity in a deal that values the spaceship manufacturer at about $10 billion.
Elon Musk and his wife are divorcing for a second time.
Tesla founder Elon Musk says it's being developed with the help of about 25 UCLA graduate architecture students at a facility in Playa Vista.
The unmanned Dragon capsule parachuted into the Pacific, west of Mexico's Baja Peninsula, on Saturday.
The announcement put to rest a week of feverish speculation. Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted about the news last week with a tweet that said, "About time to unveil the D and something else."
California is one of five states bidding for a $5 billion factory that Tesla Motors plans to build so it can crank out batteries for a new generation of electric cars.
SpaceX is one of several private companies competing to build "space taxis" for NASA to replace the retired space shuttle fleet.
Buzz Aldrin and Elon Musk are two of the many movers and shakers who will be at the 33rd Annual International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles.
But CEO Elon Musk said the state remains in the "improbable" category for winning the plant because of the time it will take to win regulatory approval.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk urged the public to polish sketch plans he released last week for a "Hyperloop" that would shoot capsules full of people at the speed of sound through elevated tubes connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Twice as fast as an airplane, cheaper than a bullet train and completely self-powered: that's the mysterious transportation system that inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk is promising to reveal design plans for Monday.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is back on Earth.
