So then there’s the spacecraft—which SpaceX calls the Interplanetary Spaceship, and which I’m going to keep calling the Big Fucking Spaceship because it’s more fun. The BFS is the big cool-looking thing on top of the BFB (in case you’re getting Big Fucking Confused—the Big Fuckin...
But don’t be blinded by the imperial stormtrooper bling. There are plenty of reasons why their designs look so different. While the EMU is currently more rugged and dependable than Elon Musk’s stark white space undies, that doesn’t mean the SpaceX version is bad. Each suit has its use...
(Several Raptors did not fire as planned on Thursday, so thrust levels on the debut flight were lower than that max level.) SpaceX considered digging a flame trench at Starbase, which is located next to Boca Chica Beach, but ultimately decided not to. "Aspiring to have no flame diverter ...
Astronomers have had five years to brace for the impact of SpaceX's Starlink internet-satellite megaconstellation, but the first few batches of the spacecraft still managed to catch the community off guard.
In the 1960s, humans set out to discover what the red planet has to teach us. Now, NASA is hoping to land the first humans on Mars by the 2030s.
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and many people doubted it was still possible. SpaceX changed that. By injecting rocketry with a spirit of innovation, the company ignited the space industry. Spurred by Elon Musk, investors are pouring billions of dollars into the space industry. Unfortunately, the major airplane manufacturers hav...
Musk's businesses include SpaceX, Tesla, X, formerly known as Twitter, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and xAI, some of which do business with foreign countries. Tesla, for instance, does business in China. Musk's net worth is just shy of $400 billion as of this month, accordi...
and bring home a SpaceX Dragon crewed spacecraft. This, along with other spaceflights by civilians aboard Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic spacecraft, has opened a world of possibilities for crews in space. It became possible for even school students to build and fly CubeSats and smaller, cost...
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