28 February 2017
The future is here: Elon Musk announces commercial flights to the Moon
... would launch on a Dragon 2 crew spacecraft using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy booster, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The...after the NASA crewed mission to the space station using the Falcon 9/Dragon 2 spacecraft. The mission will not be making a ...
03 June 2016
Elon Musk: Mars mission architecture to be unveiled in September
...interest from customers. He addressed the development delays of the Falcon Heavy, which was originally scheduled to launch a few ... as we can,” he said, referring to the June 2015 Falcon 9 launch vehicle that halted launches for nearly six months. ...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
...the Moon for water, minerals and precious metals. Falcon Heavy Anyone who watched the livestream will have ... have parted company for good”. Dangers of meaningless narrative The Falcon Heavy launch is an example of the increasingly popular, yet ...
30 May 2020
An historic day for US spaceflight as Crew Dragon launches successfully
... hit zeros around 19:22 GMT (15:22 EDT) and Falcon 9 smoothly lifted off and headed into orbit. After around 9 ...launch took place, though some lucky onlookers were able to watch Falcon 9 blasting off from Florida including President Trump, who is the...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... At the centre of this network, so to speak, is the Falcon 9 rocket. But moving away from that centre, one sees all the... mixed funding, the most common form at present as the Falcon 9 project clearly shows, how are the expectations of the different...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... in enabling space commerce. In February 2018, SpaceX landed two of the three first-stage boosters from its Falcon Heavy rocket’s inaugural launch. As of February 2020, SpaceX had successfully landed 49 first-stage boosters, including landings...
