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 […]
Elon Musk – the Future of Energy & Transport On November 14 Elon Musk participated in a 90 minute Q&A at the Oxford Martin School with the topic the Future of Energy and Transport. From the abstract, Musk “will talk from his own experiences at the forefront of technology and innovation about what kind of technological transformations are just around the corner and how these can help address the world’s […]
Government and Space: Lead, Follow, and Get Out of the Way, Rick Tumlinson, Huffington Post “2012 will see those committed to settling space (O’Neillians) begin orbital delivery operations, private microgravity experiments on the space station, and sub-orbital, commercial, human space-flight tests. Recently, the revolution jumped another level, as a commercial space-station company announced it is partnering with a commercial spaceflight firm, thus completely eliminating the government from the equation. And […]
The Path Ahead for NASA: Lewis & Clark and the Settlers, SpaceRef At a press conference at NASA KSC several days ago I asked the following question of NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver: “Yesterday you went on SpaceX tour [with the media] here at the Cape. We all heard talk of launching the Falcon 9 rocket with single digit number of people using launch and mission control rooms smaller than […]
SpaceX Announces Launch Date for the World’s Most Powerful Rocket “Today, Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the Falcon Heavy, the world’s largest rocket. “Falcon Heavy will carry more payload to orbit or escape velocity than any vehicle in history, apart from the Saturn V moon rocket, which was decommissioned after the Apollo program. This […]
Can NASA change in order to survive?, Orlando Sentinel via LA Times. “In the world of government spaceflight, that’s almost a rounding error. And the ability of SpaceX to do so much with so little money is raising serious questions about NASA. The agency that once stood for American technical wizardry is starting to lose its luster. Inside NASA, some employees have taken to wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the letters […]
