52. Why does the writer mention the two pieces of news at the beginning of the passage? A. To illustrate the inequality of wealth distribution and the consequent inequality of attention distribution. B. To highlight the significance of SpaceX's successful launch of a rocket and a car into ...
First, let’s look at what it means to take things to space for people, for money. Falcon 9 In 2008, with a successful orbital launch achieved and a slew of new customers eager to sign up for SpaceX’s weirdly cheap space delivery service, it was time for SpaceX to take off the ...
Starship is SpaceX’s rocket that will make life multiplanetary, and with five successful test launches already, Musk believes it will be takingunmanned missions to Mars in the coming years. A month ago, Musk said 2026 would be the ideal year to attempt the first launches with the intention...
[02:24.24]Helium is also used for cooling systems. [02:28.80]As fuel and oxidizer [02:31.32]are burned in the rocket's engines, [02:34.00]helium fills the resulting [02:36.40]empty space in the tanks, [02:38.72]ma...
3) The spectacularly great outcome:A mission success in orbitanda successful first stage landing back on Earth—SpaceX employees will go apeshit like their team just won the Superbowl on a last second Hail Mary. 4) The super awkward outcome:The launch goes normally, the first stage separates...
Unless you live under a rock (where exactly are these rocks, anyhow?), you’ve heard the news that SpaceX completed the 4th successful first stage landing of its Falcon 9 rocket after launching to a very high orbit. This was the third one in a row to land on an oceangoing droneship,...
SpaceXpulled off another successful launch Friday, lofting a set of new polar-orbiting satellites. By itself, this Falcon 9 launch isn't unique. It's the fifth SpaceX launch this year. The launch was far less pioneering than SpaceX's maiden flight of the more massive Falcon Heavy rocket ...
Space is hard, and space stocks are risky I agree with Morgan Stanley that the delay Rocket Lab describes seems like nothing to worry about. Building rockets is hard, and getting them to fly right and not explode is even harder, as we sawwith SpaceXlast week. ...
How To Be Successful | 如何成功 by Sam Altman | 山姆·奥特曼 我观察过数以千计的公司创始人,并且反复思考过什么样的人可以挣到巨额财富,或者作出重要创造。通常来说,人们出道的时候是期盼前者(即巨额财富),但是最终还是想要后者(即作出重要创造)。
Yes, the Apollo missions were enormously successful — and enormously expensive. At its peak, NASA was consuming around 5% of the entire federal budget, and more than half of that was devoted to the Apollo program. Accounting for inflation, the entire Apollo program would cost over $260 ...