Elon Musk Provides Sneak Peek Of Elevator For Underground Tunnel Project
He showed video of a Tesla being lowered into the ground outside SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne.
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He showed video of a Tesla being lowered into the ground outside SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne.
The Dragon was in space for 28 days docked at the International Space Station delivering supplies.
A lightning strike within 11 miles of the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center forced mission controllers to cancel the liftoff scheduled for 2:55 p.m. Pacific time.
The video shows the sled, apparently riding a monorail, zipping through alternately dark and lighted sections of the tunnel.
Hawthorne-based SpaceX has launched a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government.
His plan includes platforms that act like elevators carrying the cars to an underground series of tunnels.
It is the biggest leap yet in its bid to drive down costs and speed up flights.
Hawthorne-based aerospace company SpaceX has announced its plans to send the passengers following a series health and fitness tests later this year.
It was the first flight from NASA's legendary Launch Complex 39A since the shuttle program ended almost six years ago.
SpaceX delayed its inaugural launch from NASA's historic moon pad.
College teams from around the world designed pods that could shoot through tunnels at 70 miles per hour.
The Falcon9 rocket booster sits at the Port of Los Angeles after being towed in from the Pacific.
A 160-foot-tall SpaceX rocket booster arrived at the Port of Los Angeles early Tuesday morning.
Last September's explosion destroyed a rocket and satellite valued at $262 million.
The Hawthorne-based company is anticipating "being down for about three months – and getting back to flight in the November time frame."
SpaceX has a taker for the first flight of one of its recycled rockets.
SpaceX successfully launched another cargo mission using its Falcon 9 rocket.
In the clip posted to YouTube, user ajw61185 is seen landing the mini-Falcon-9 replica on a platform in his pool.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says if things go according to plan people will be on Mars just nine years from now.
The mission marked the third straight time SpaceX succeeded in recovering one of its Falcon 9 rockets on the barge.
A SpaceX capsule headed back to Earth on Wednesday with precious science samples from NASA's one-year space station resident.
SpaceX sent a rocket into space carrying a commercial Japanese communications satellite, then landed the returning rocket on a barge in the Atlantic off Florida's coast Friday.
Hawthorne-based aerospace company SpaceX announced plans Wednesday to send one of the company's Dragon spaceships to Mars as soon as 2018.
SpaceX resumed station deliveries for NASA on Friday, and in a double triumph, successfully landed its booster rocket on an ocean platform for the first time.
SpaceX made history again Friday when it successfully launched a spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space Station, then recovered the expensive rocket that propelled the ship into orbit on a floating barge.
