May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... tons of payload on a reusable rocket, taking people and cargo to the Moon and potentially fulfilling billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars. Other heavy rocket launches include ULA’s Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, as well...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
.... Pak critiques contemporary enthusiasm for space colonisation – particularly among tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk – who frame interplanetary settlement as a solution to Earth’s environmental crises without addressing the underlying causes...
21 December 2015
SpaceX’s postponed rocket launch due for lift off today
... landing," SpaceX said in a statement. Monday "has a 10 percent higher chance of a good landing,” announced internet tycoon Elon Musk on Sunday afternoon, several hours before its initially planned launch. Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket and the...
18 January 2016
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully, Though First Stage Landing Fails
... as we touched down on the droneship,” he said. “Unfortunately we are not standing upright on the droneship at the moment.” Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and CEO later tweeted that it was “definitely harder to land on a ship. ...A leg lockout didn...
