At this point, there will actually be Martians, except they will be people like you and me. 在这一点上,实际上将有火星人,除了他们将是像你和我一样的人。 177 00:12:22,32 --> 00:12:23,66 And it's about more than just Mars. 而且这不仅仅是关于火星的。 178 00:12:24,32 --> 00...
Point-to-Point Travel on Earth A giant SpaceX rocket launches from a floating platform near New York City carrying passengers bound for Shanghai in this still from a video animation depicting the potential for point-to-point travel on Earth with the massive spaceship. See the Evolution of Spac...
Rachel Feltman:If you’re listening to this podcast, chances are pretty good that you’ve heard about the problem of space junk— the countless pieces of trash from dead satellites, old rockets and other assorted space infrastructure orbiting our planet that can travel as fast as 22,000 miles...
It's been hailed as the beginning of a new era of commercial space travel -- an era that can't get here fast enough for NASA, which retired the space shuttle last summer and now has to pay its old rival Russia to fly American astronauts into space. And Musk's ambition doesn't stop...
Scott Pelley: Is what we are experiencing, at this moment in time, the turning point in man's reach for space? Going from governments to private companies like yours? Elon Musk: I think we're at the dawn of a new era and it's-- I think it's going to be very exciting. What we...
So I was way more excited than her at that point. Feltman:Could you tell me a little bit more about how your collaborator was able to pinpoint what piece of space junk this was? Lawler:Yeah. So Jonathan McDowell is an astrophysicist who works at [the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard...
And, if everything goes according to plan, it will also do a lot of other things, from satellite launches to "point-to-point" travel here on Earth. SpaceX aims to phase out all of its current hardware eventually, handing all tasks over to the BFR. Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @...
acceptable price. At one point, he even considered the venerable Delta II rocket. Left empty-handed, Musk was confident that he could improve access to space by dramatically decreasing launch prices. He started building out the original SpaceX team in early 2002, and the company was founded ...
and I said to Jim, “Jim, it’s okay, why don’t you wait five or 10 minutes?” And he said, “Sir, we only have a window of one second.” And I walked out of here, shaking my head. “Is that true, J...
I assumed that jet lag would have me awake well before the scheduled launch time Saturday of SpaceX’s Starship rocket and so volunteered to write it up. I made a point of noting how much progress this incomplete test represented over April’s messier flight test and nodding to a Reuters ...