“Eventually, there will be thousands of Starships going to Mars and it will a glorious sight to see!” Maybe fix the Cybertruck issues first.
Kudos to this YouTuber for getting a tour with Bezos as his guide considering how closed-door this company has been.
Jeff Bezos’ rocket is going to need a bigger glans.
This first private customer flight had been delayed for years; its success means Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic can now start offering monthly rides, joining Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the space tourism business.
Virgin Galactic will be taking passengers and crew on a 90-minute suborbital ride this afternoon as the ‘spaceplane’ blasts them up to about 80km above the New Mexico desert.
This space company planned to retrieve a rocket booster in mid-air with a helicopter for the first time ever, which they successfully managed, somewhat.
Travelling to Mars is an incredible feat, and while Elon Musk believes we can get there in the next decade, there are some serious obstacles to overcome.
A team of students from the University of the KwaZulu Natal attempted their first “home-grown research rocket” launch yesterday. It didn’t go to plan.
The French… always trying weird things. If they’re not eating frog’s legs and garlicky garden snails, they’re flying around on rocketbikes.
Distance is usually the necessary factor in gaining perspective on a situation that seems just too massive to cope with. Distance is exactly what astronauts in the International Space Station have and, unsurprisingly, their perspective is radical.
Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist – you’re thinking Tony Stark, aren’t you? Well, Elon Musk might be the closest thing we’ve got to a real-life Iron Man. He not only is a genius, billionaire, playboy and philanthropist, he’s now creating the things that he saw in the Iron Man movies!
Spaceflight start-up, SpaceX – those guys who want to put a person on Mars in the next decade or two – has been demonstrating the potency of its SuperDraco rockets at their test facility in Texas. Take a look at the fancily-named rockets in action after the jump.