07 November 2016
Solid oxygen to blame for SpaceX explosion
... why this occurred has now been somewhat quelled as Musk stated that the explosion that destroyed the rocket was ...In describing the “toughest puzzle we’ve ever had to solve” Musk said that the explosion was caused by supercooled liquid oxygen becoming...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...is working towards a full-time human presence on the red planet by 2040. Even more ambitiously, Musk intends for this Martian colony to grow eventually to a population of 80,000 people. As a relatively small outpost located in a hazardous ...
29 April 2016
SpaceX Announces Plans for Mars Mission.
...window for missions to Mars (spring of 2018). SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that “Dragon 2 is designed to be able to land ... resting on the Martian surface in their Twitter feed. Elon Musk is known for his long-term vision of establishing a permanent...
08 April 2016
Falcon 9 Launch Scheduled for Later Today
..., technology that the company views as critical to opening up the space frontier. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has said that reusable boosters could cut the cost of spaceflight by a factor of 100, perhaps making Mars...
23 September 2024
Elon Musk
... my all to save both”. Some readers may find that Musk’s multifaceted interests continually interrupt the story of his space company,... is too little, too late. During a pre-launch pep-talk, Musk is quoted as saying, “the thing you’re working on is the...
01 December 2021
SpaceX risks bankruptcy due to Raptor problems, says Musk
...; SpaceX has invested “massive capital” on scaling up production of end-user terminals to several million units per year, Musk wrote and those terminals depend on the additional bandwidth the Starlink V2 satellites will provide. If the V2’s cannot...
