Elon Musk

Hangout with Elon Musk

October 3, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter SpaceX’s Elon Musk with the Falcon rocket. Credit: SpaceX You can now tell everyone that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is a close personal friend and that you are going to hang out with him on Friday. A Google+ Hangout, that is. [...]

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Dragon’s Ocean Splashdown Caps Historic Opening of New Space Era

May 31, 2012

Concluding a perfectly executed and history making test flight, the first private spacecraft ever to visit and dock at the International Space Station (ISS) performed a picture perfect splashdown at 11:42 a.m. EDT (1542 GMT) today, May 31, in the Pacific Ocean, off the west coast of Baja, California, some 560 miles southwest of Los [...]

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Video: SpaceX’s Elon Musk Talks Space on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart

April 11, 2012

The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook As Jon Stewart from the Daily Show noted (although not quite correctly), four entities have launched rockets into space: the US, China, the Soviet Union (Russia) and Elon Musk. “Well, it wasn’t just me,” Musk replied [...]

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SpaceX to Develop a Fully Reusable Launch System — and Elon Musk Wants to Send Humans to Mars

September 29, 2011

At a speech at the National Press Club on Thursday, SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk rolled out SpaceX’s latest leap into the future: Musk and his teams are developing a fully reusable space transportation system. The video above shows how both stages of the two-stage rocket return to Earth and make a [...]

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Elon Musk: “Why the US Can Beat China”

May 4, 2011

“Whenever someone proposes to do something that has never been done before, there will always be skeptics,” says SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. He distributed an email today, setting the record straight on SpaceX’s actual launch costs and prices, and he also outlines why he believes American innovation will trump countries like China in [...]

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