By Emily Carney, on January 7th, 2015 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with one of his company’s Falcon-9 rockets. Photo Credit: SpaceX
Just hours before SpaceX’s fifth cargo mission (CRS-5) was due to be launched to the International Space Station (ISS), the company’s CEO and CTO was up late in Cape Canaveral answering fans’ questions on Reddit, the social networking website […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Leonidas Papadopoulos, on February 11th, 2014 Artistic rendering of Mars, made from images taken with NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. Private space companies have announced plans for the colonisation of the Red Planet within the next decade. How close are those plans to becoming a reality? Image Credit: Kees Veenenbos/MOLA Science Team/NASA
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By David Darling, on August 16th, 2013 An unmanned Dragon spacecraft conducting the Commercial Resupply Services mission is seen here (CRS-2) grappled by the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA
Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has just passed the seventh of 15 development milestones set by NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative. Along with Boeing and Sierra Nevada […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Jim Hillhouse, on April 29th, 2013 Illustration of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. Image Credit: SpaceX
There have been occasional suggestions that NASA should scrap its Space Launch System (SLS) in favor of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy for fulfilling its beyond low-Earth orbit needs [1]. The claim forwarded by some is that the as-yet-untested-and-unflown 53 mt low-Earth orbit (LEO) (200 […]
Like this:Like Loading...
By Jason Rhian, on April 1st, 2013 During a recent teleconference, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that his company will try to recover the first stage from the ocean and then will attempt to have the first stage return to the landing site under its own power. Photo Credit: SpaceX
During a teleconference detailing the return of Space Exploration Technologies’ […]
Like this:Like Loading...
|
|