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SpaceX's first ever crewed mission – carrying three astronauts – is scheduled to launch to the ISS on May 27 from Florida. This will mark the first launch of astronauts from U.S. soil since 2011.
SpaceX employees are reportedly making face shields and hand sanitizer to donate during the global coronavirus pandemic.
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to lease 18 acres of the former Bethlehem shipyard to Hawthorne-based SpaceX for new facilities that will house aerospace research, design and manufacturing on Terminal Island.
The Hawthorne-based company was planning to launch a rocket that was going to simulate an inflight accident. The goal was to show how it's emergency escape pod would keep astronauts safe if a rocket had a problem during launch.
Tesla unveiled its first electric pickup truck Thursday night at the Tesla Design Center in Los Angeles.
SpaceX launched 60 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit Monday, Nov. 11 and the sight was seen across the country.
At a presentation in Texas Sunday night, the CEO of SpaceX unveiled the "Starship Mark One," which Musk says will carry people and supplies into space.
Hawthorne-based SpaceX is scheduled to launch the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the RADARSAT Constellation Wednesday morning during a launch window that opens at 7:17 a.m. and try to recover the rocket with a landing back at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
It exploded during ground testing at Cape Canaveral on April 20. SpaceX remains hopeful it can use the Crew Dragon Capsule to launch two NASA astronauts to the space station this year.
The Crew Dragon's successful mission Friday means the first piloted flight of the spacecraft could take place as soon as July. The U.S. has not launched astronauts into space since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011.
Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully launched a rocket Thursday from Cape Canaveral carrying three payloads, including a lunar lander that could make Israel the fourth country to ever deposit a spacecraft on the moon.
Instead, SpaceX will be moving rocket-building operations to Texas.
SpaceX announced on Friday that the Hawthorne-based company is laying off 10 percent of its workforce.
The two-mile test tunnel is the first of what Musk hopes will be many to alleviate L.A.'s traffic issues.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:32 a.m. from Vandenberg on a "ridesharing" mission to carry 64 satellites into orbit. The launch has been postponed three times.
The 2.7-mile tunnel would have run parallel to Sepulveda Boulevard on the Westside. Community groups sued, alleging the project had been exempted from environmental reviews.
"We've recently made a number of breakthroughs that I… am just really fired up about," the SpaceX founder said, adding, "I'm talking about moving there."
NASA has ordered a safety review of SpaceX and Boeing after agency leaders saw SpaceX CEO Elon Musk smoke pot with Joe Rogan on his podcast, The Washington Post is reporting.
From Hawthorne to the Valley in 15 minutes?
The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 7:21 p.m., lighting up the overcast sky before placing an Argentinian SAOCOM 1A satellite into orbit.
The Air Force is warning residents on California's central coast to be prepared for unusual sights and sounds this weekend as SpaceX attempts its first return of a rocket to launch site on the West Coast.
SpaceX says Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will become the first person to travel to the moon since 1972.
NASA astronauts paid a visit to SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne Monday.
The launch happened just before 4:40 a.m. and was visible from Southern California's coastal areas.
While SpaceX often recovers the first-stage of its Falcon 9 rockets so they can be reused in future missions, it will not be doing so this time.
