NASA Exec Resigns Days Before 1st Spacex Astronaut Launch
NASA's chief of human exploration has resigned just days before the first astronaut launch in nearly a decade from Kennedy Space Center.
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NASA's chief of human exploration has resigned just days before the first astronaut launch in nearly a decade from Kennedy Space Center.
For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil. And for the first time in the history of human spaceflight, a private company is running the show.
Elon Musk and Grimes may be calling their newborn baby boy X Æ A-12 Musk but the unusual moniker could fall afoul of California's constitution where even the name "José" is not technically valid.
Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly.
SpaceX has confirmed that its crew capsule was destroyed in ground testing two weeks ago.
The second-ever launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket — and the first to carry a payload for a paying customer — will be a key milestone.
A sleek new American-built capsule with a test dummy aboard docked with the International Space Station on Sunday in a big step toward putting the U.S. back in the business of launching astronauts.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked into space early Saturday, boosting the company's first Crew Dragon spacecraft into orbit on an unpiloted test flight and opening a new era in American spaceflight.
An Israeli spacecraft rocketed toward the moon for the country's first attempted lunar landing, following a launch Thursday night by SpaceX.
Ten new satellites for Iridium Communications' global network have been successfully deployed in orbit after launch from California's Central Coast.
A SpaceX delivery full of Christmas goodies arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, following a slight delay caused by a communication drop-out.
In an interview airing this Sunday on "60 Minutes," Elon Musk, CEO of the Bay Area's Tesla Motors, explains why he acts the way he does.
SpaceX deployed 64 satellites in one fell swoop from California — a record-setting mission.
When SpaceX launched a rocket carrying an Argentine Earth-observation satellite from California, both the night sky and social media lit up.
Many Bay Area residents looked into the sky Sunday evening and saw it lit up by what they thought was a UFO. But it was actually SpaceX at work.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced Yusaku Maezawa of Japan will be the first "private passenger" on a moon mission using the promised BFR rocket.
SpaceX said it has signed the first private moon traveler, with some changes to its original game plan.
As Elon Musk's The Boring Company looks to build a tunnel to Dodger Stadium, employees at another Musk company may have engaged in "astroturfing" to drum up support for the project.
NASA on Friday assigned the astronauts who will ride the first commercial capsules into orbit next year and bring crew launches back to the U.S.
SpaceX lifted Bangladesh's first satellite into orbit Friday using an upgraded rocket designed for dozens of repeat flights including back-to-back, same-day launches.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 satellites for Iridium Communications has blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Elon Musk just nonchalantly erased Tesla and SpaceX from the world's most popular social media platform.
Shareholders of electric car and solar panel maker Tesla Inc. have approved an ambitious pay package for iconic CEO Elon Musk that could net him more than $50 billion if he meets lofty milestones over the next decade, according to a person briefed on the vote.
Elon Musk issued yet another incredibly ambitious timeline.
SpaceX is marking the 50th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, its satellite-delivery workhorse.
