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SpaceX founder Elon Musk said during a conference on Tuesday that he wants to see man living as a multi-planet species. "Ultimately, the thing that is super important in the grand scale of history is"”are we on a path to becoming a multi-planet species or not? If we're not, that's not a very bright future. We'll just be hanging out on Earth until some eventual calamity claims us," Musk said according to a PC Magazine report.The billionaire founder of PayPal told the American...
A SpaceX manager said Thursday that the company plans to launch its second test capsule on November 30 and send it to the International Space Station. Garret Reisman, a former astronaut working at SpaceX, said the company plans to combine its second and third test flights with a single mission, scheduled to launch November 30 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. "The next flight of the Dragon we're going to go all the way and berth it to the space station, drop cargo off and bring stuff back,"...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is set to break ground on a launch pad and hangar at a California Air Force Base for its Falcon Heavy, which will be the world's most powerful rocket. SpaceX said it is investing $30 million at Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 4-East for the soon to be developed 22-story tall Falcon Heavy rocket. SpaceX hopes to use the launch pad for the first time by the end of next year in a demonstration flight for the US government. After...
Whenever someone proposes to do something that has never been done before, there will always be skeptics.So when I started SpaceX, it was not surprising when people said we wouldn't succeed. But now that we've successfully proven Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon, there's been a steady stream of misinformation and doubt expressed about SpaceX's actual launch costs and prices.As noted last month by a Chinese government official, SpaceX currently has the best launch prices in the world and they...
SpaceX said on Saturday that it hopes to put an astronaut on Mars within 10 to 20 years. "We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."SpaceX is a private space company that has won a $75 million contract with NASA to replace the space shuttle program. The company completed its first successful test of an unmanned space capsule last...
First Astronaut Mission Expected in Three YearsNASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) $75 million to develop a revolutionary launch escape system that will enable the company's Dragon spacecraft to carry astronauts. The Congressionally mandated award is part of the agency's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiative that started in 2009 to help private companies mature concepts and technologies for human spaceflight."This award will accelerate our efforts to develop the...
On Tuesday, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the world's largest rocket. "Falcon Heavy will carry more payload to orbit or escape velocity than any vehicle in history, apart from the Saturn V moon rocket, which was decommissioned after the Apollo program. This opens a new world of capability for both government and commercial space missions," SpaceX CEO and chief rocket designer Elon Musk told a press conference at the...
Luxembourg-based SES, one of the world's leading providers of satellite communication and transmission services, announced Monday that it had reached a deal with privately owned SpaceX for a launch sometime in 2013 using the US firm's Falcon 9 rocket. "The SES deal shows that even the most conservative commercial or government customers can have confidence flying their satellites on the Falcon 9 rocket," SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk said in a statement on the company's website. SES, which...
New Lease Gives Company Space to Grow in McGregorSpace Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the City of McGregor today signed a lease agreement allowing SpaceX to expand the size of its rocket development facility in McGregor.Under the deal, SpaceX will lease 631 acres -- the equivalent of almost 500 football fields -- for its test facility. The new lease will more than double the size of the current 256 acre site on the Western edge of the City of McGregor, and will last roughly 10 years,...
Joining Astronaut Safety and Mission Assurance Team as SpaceX Prepares to Carry AstronautsSpace Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is proud to announce that NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman is joining the company as a senior engineer working on astronaut safety and mission assurance."We're excited about the great team that we are building. Our talent is the key to our success. Garrett's experience designing and using spaceflight hardware will be invaluable as we prepare the spacecraft that will...
