Tag: Elon Musk
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SpaceX plans to lay off 10 percent of workforce
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks with reporters after the Falcon Heavy’s maiden flight in February 2018. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now SpaceX, the upstart rocket company that has shaken up the launch industry with low-cost reusable boosters and ambitious long-range plans to carry people to Mars and beyond, plans…
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SpaceX about one month away from first commercial crew test flight
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Jan. 10 with NASA statement confirming target launch date in February. The crew access arm at launch pad 39A extended to the Crew Dragon spacecraft shortly after the Falcon 9 rocket was erected vertical Jan. 3. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX founder Elon Musk said this weekend that the company is about one month…
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SpaceX launch Monday will signify a new advance in reusing rockets
EDITOR’S NOTE: SpaceX announced early Sunday that the SSO-A launch has been delayed to Monday to allow additional inspections on the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage. The rocket set to launch the Spaceflight SSO-A rideshare mission Monday previously flew twice — on May 11 from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, and on Aug. 7…
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Elon Musk says there’s a 70 percent chance he’ll move to Mars (and possibly die there)
Axios’ Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen interview SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. (Axios / HBO via YouTube) As NASA prepares for its next Mars landing on Monday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is giving himself a 70 percent chance of moving to Mars. But in an Axios interview airing tonight on HBO, he emphasizes that it won’t…
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NASA reviews safety at SpaceX and Boeing after Elon Musk smokes pot on video
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner are being developed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA. (SpaceX / Boeing Illustrations) NASA has ordered a review of workplace safety at SpaceX and Boeing, the two companies developing spaceships to ferry its astronauts to and from the International Space Station, in…
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Goodbye, BFR … hello, Starship: Elon Musk gives a classic name to his Mars spaceship
An artist’s conception shows SpaceX’s Starship in flight. (SpaceX Illustration) First it was the Mars Colonial Transporter, or MCT … then it was the Interplanetary Transport System, or ITS … then it was the Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR. Now it’s Starship. Tonight SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced the latest name for the spaceship that…
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Elon Musk and Mars take the spotlight in National Geographic TV doubleheader
SpaceX founder Elon Musk watches February’s ascent of the Falcon Heavy rocket in a scene from National Geographic’s “Mars: Inside SpaceX.” (National Geographic / RadicalMedia via YouTube) Science fiction blends with fact in tonight’s double dose of Mars from National Geographic’s TV channel. Truth to tell, there’s more fact than fiction: The first show in…
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In Recode Q&A, Elon Musk talks up ‘Blade Runner’ truck, Space Force and Jeff Bezos
Elon Musk speaks at a space conference in 2016. (SpaceX Photo) Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is really psyched about the electric pickup truck he’s got on the drawing board — and he’s also cool with the Space Force and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space effort. Those are just a…
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SpaceX’s round-the-moon trip could have VR, ‘Space Bar’ and in-flight entertainment
An artist’s conception shows a violinist performing in zero-G during a voyage in SpaceX’s BFR spaceship. (SpaceX via Twitter) It’s been only a day since SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the plan to send Yusaku Maezawa and roughly half a dozen artists around the moon, but folks are already nominating themselves (and others) for a…
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Japanese billionaire reserves moon flight with SpaceX
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated with BFR design details. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk (left) and Yusaku Maezawa, founder of the Japanese retail website Zozo, announce plans for a private lunar mission at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Promising to take a half-dozen or more artists with him on the journey, Japanese…