You're a hero, Chad pic.twitter.com/dQ3G4ffk0j — Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) May 9, 2021
When I was growing up in the 1960s they’d show those old sci fi films from the 1950s on TV as an example of what the post-Apollo future would be like. People would climb into silvery rockets with fins and then they’d blast off – and land somewhere – in the same rocket.
(more…)This is circulating from the @SpaceXStarlink TOS. Yes, people will be arguing about the Outer Space Treaty thing but it is interesting to see a company thinking ahead to providing services to people living offworld. Or maybe this is a @SpaceX lawyer having a little fun. Or both. pic.twitter.com/QUKW4hhszJ — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 28, 2020
How Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX beat Boeing to become a $28 billion aerospace juggernaut, CNBC “SpaceX has upended the rocket industry, making founder Elon Musk the world’s most disruptive space pioneer. The visionary entrepreneur is bent on building giant low-cost reusable rockets and spaceships that can be used to colonize humans on Mars. In the process, he is helping to catalyze a private space exploration industry in the United […]
SpaceX will try to launch Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster on new heavy-lift rocket, Spaceflight Now “Musk told reporters in March that SpaceX would put “the silliest thing we can imagine” on the first Falcon Heavy flight. The company placed a wheel of cheese on the first flight of its Dragon cargo craft in an ode to the Monty Python comedy group. The Tesla Roadster weighs about 2,760 pounds (1,250 kilograms), […]
Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas, Washington Post “President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy … by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions. The innovation office has a particular focus on technology and data, and it is working with such titans as … […]
Elon Musk Is Meeting With Trump Advisor Steve Bannon, Inverse “Elon Musk, the billionaire president of SpaceX and Tesla, is meeting with Donald Trump’s senior counselor and chief strategist Steve Bannon, according to the press pool. Musk was spotted walking into New York’s Trump Tower on Friday a little before noon. There aren’t many details about what the two will be talking about at this point. It’s not the first […]
Musk Sleeps Near Factory Floor to Spur Tesla Manufacturing, Bloomberg “Elon Musk, determined to turn his electric-car company into a great maker of things, said that he keeps a sleeping bag in a conference room adjacent to Tesla Motors Inc.’s production line in Fremont, California.” Why Elon Musk Sleeps in a Sleeping Bag, Motley Fool “So I move my desk around to wherever the most important place is for the […]
Neil deGrasse Tyson Doesn’t Think Elon Musk’s SpaceX Will Put People On Mars, Business Insider “Renowned astrophysicist and StarTalk Radio host Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn’t think a private enterprise, such as SpaceX, could ever lead a space frontier. “It’s not possible. Space is dangerous. It’s expensive. There are unquantified risks,” Neil deGrasse Tyson tells us. “Combine all of those under one umbrella; you cannot establish a free market capitalization of […]
Hyperloop By Elon Musk, Chairman, Product Architect & CEO, Tesla “When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive […]