SpaceX fails to repeat Starship booster catch, as Trump watches on

Agence France Presse 11/20/2024

SpaceX flew its latest test flight of its Starship megarocket on Tuesday, with President-elect Donald Trump joining Elon Musk to witness the spectacle firsthand in the latest sign of their ever-closer ties. But the Republican leader was…

SpaceX ‘catches’ megarocket booster after test flight: A milestone

Agence France Presse 10/14/2024

BOCA CHICA, United States — SpaceX on Sunday successfully flew the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket back to the launch pad after a test flight, a technical tour de force that furthers the company’s quest for…

SpaceX a week away from first private spacewalk

08/20/2024

Washington, United States–Four members of a SpaceX mission that will carry out the first ever private spacewalk arrived in Florida on Monday ahead of their takeoff next week. The five-day expedition, named Polaris Dawn, will be led…

SpaceX rocket explodes on ground after seemingly good flight

03/04/2021

WASHINGTON – An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded on the ground Wednesday after carrying out what had seemed to be a successful flight and landing. It was the third straight flub involving the prototype of the Starship rocket,…

SpaceX captures the flag, beating Boeing in cosmic contest

AP 06/02/2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — The first astronauts launched by SpaceX declared victory Monday in NASA’s cosmic capture-the-flag game. They quickly claimed the prize left behind at the International Space Station nearly a decade ago by the last…

SpaceX’s historic encore: Astronauts arrive at space station

MARCIA DUNN 06/01/2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another first for Elon Musk’s company. With…

NASA, SpaceX bringing astronaut launches back to home turf

05/22/2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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…

SpaceX aims to launch up to 4 tourists into super high orbit

02/21/2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX aims to launch up to four tourists into a super high orbit, possibly by the end of next year. The private company is working with Space Adventures Inc. for the flight,…

Musk unveils SpaceX rocket designed to get to Mars and back

09/29/2019

BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, Texas — 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. In…

MIT wins Hyperloop design contest

01/31/2016

COLLEGE STATION – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student engineers won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk’ idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed.…

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