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President Obama leads celebration on Twitter for SpaceX’s rocket landing at sea
SpaceX’s first-ever at-sea rocket landing was cause for a Twitter celebration that drew...
SpaceX’s satellite launch works like a charm, but rocket makes hard landing
After coping with a wayward boat, unfavorable winds and propellant problems, SpaceX launched the SES-9 telecommunication satellite on...
SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to go into space by 2021 and start Mars missions by 2025
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says he has his heart set on going into space himself, perhaps in the next four or five years, and organize the first flights to Mars by 2025. Musk’s travel timetable came out...
Speculation mounts over Elon Musk’s plan for SpaceX’s Mars Colonial Transporter
In the wake of SpaceX’s successful rocket landing, some of the company’s most ardent fans are guessing at the shape of the biggest thing to come:...
What a night! Cameras capture SpaceX’s historic Falcon 9 rocket landing
A day after the first-ever fully successful landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, space fans around the world are geeking out over the pictures. And it’s not just geeks. Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, commander of...
It’s official: NASA signs up to send crew on SpaceX’s Dragon space taxi
NASA has ordered its first mission from SpaceX to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, six months after placing a similar order with Boeing. “It’s really exciting to see SpaceX and Boeing with hardware in flow for their first crew rotation missions,” Kathy Lueders, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said today in a news release....
SpaceX’s Elon Musk gets in the Thanksgiving spirit on ‘The Big Bang Theory’
You wouldn’t think Elon Musk was a warm and fuzzy guy, based on this year’s biography of the hard-driving CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, but on this week’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” we learn that he loves to help the homeless. The big reveal comes when engineer and one-time spaceflier...