Bayesian yacht captain faces manslaughter probe, Billionaire set to become first private citizen to complete a spacewalk, A giant of SA’s higher education has passed, and Inside Ben Affleck and Kick Kennedy’s budding romance.
The space junk came from a recently launched batch of lost Starlink satellites caused by an unexpected sting in the tail from a solar storm.
Baby Yoda played an important role in the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX’s Starship prototype literally blew its lid during a ground test in Texas on Wednesday, capping a rather average week for the company.
In a giant leap for mankind (or at least space travel), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked to the International Space Station for the first time.
When you’re cruising down the road the last thing you expect to see is a rocket come past, although this does happen close to the Kennedy Space Centre.
It’s not quite ‘I are like to bomb Mars’ but there’s still a South African twang to Elon’s accent. Looks like he has some interesting ideas for Mars as well.
We know that Space X have been struggling to land their Falcon rocket on a sea platform but yesterday’s launch was definitely a case of two steps backward.
Video footage has emerged of the Falcon 9 rocket booster’s latest failed landing and, as you will see, there is still much work to be done in the quest for a smooth landing.
This could be something big folks, something that changes the way a large percentage of the world uses the internet. Elon Musk isn’t aiming small with this one.
Musk talked about a period in 2008 when he had a “major meltdown.” (Does this remind anyone else of Tony Stark’s existential crisis in Iron Man 3?) On the verge of financial ruin, he faced the impossible choice between his two beloved companies: Tesla Motos and Space X. And how does one choose between the future of electronic cars made and adventures of space exploration?
From the billionaire who wants to build an 80,000 person colony on mars, create auto-pilot cars, and envisions the a steel tube that will get 28 passengers from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes, comes this awesome video. Check out Elon Musk’s out of this world rocket skills.
Fortune Magazine has named Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as its “Businessperson of the Year.” But, as Business Insider points out, he probably didn’t deserve it as much as our homebred Elon Musk.
NASA officials have announced that the first launch of a commercially built space capsule to the International Space Station is scheduled for the end of April. California-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) are the dudes responsible for the capsule in question, the unmanned Dragon spacecraft.