... ‘landing’ of the SpaceX Falcon 9 on 21 December 2015, a remarkable feat to say the least. Newspapers credit the success to Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX. This is the event that took place but what do I see, as a philosopher of science? The first...
...-dramatic headlines such as, ‘Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind’ (BBC News, December 2014) or ‘Elon Musk’s billion-dollar crusade to stop the AI apocalypse’ (Vanity Fair, April 2017). Could it be that we have clumsily...
.... Exploration architectures have been proposed with refuelling for missions to the Moon and Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has proposed such an architecture for his Mars colonisation plan. The leading space faring nations of the...
... be needed to make the system work. However, researchers believe the Sabatier system has a good chance of working. Elon Musk is banking on local fuel supply manufacture on Mars to allow for the refuelling of its BFR Mars spacecraft and...
... born) in space - seems to be an attractive achievement. Of course, private billionaires are also joining this new space race: Elon Musk is one of those also aiming to be the first to put people on Mars and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has...
..., HK Whitehorn. He invented the petrol electric car in 1927 and filed the first patent in 1932 for what Elon Musk now calls the Hyperloop, but which my grandfather called the ‘Sphericar’ - a working model of which was in the...