Elon Musk Wants to Build the Iron Man Hologram UI For Real, Gizmodo “The hologram interfaces Tony Stark uses in Iron Man are awesome, no doubt. But they also aren’t […]
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New COTS Cygnus Video Released
Orbital’s Cygnus Readying for First Space Station Flight, OnOrbit “Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo craft is bound for the International Space Station on a test flight. This flight will prove Cygnus’ […]
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SpaceX Grasshopper Performs Impressive Divert Test
SpaceX Grasshopper Performs Divert Test [Watch], SpaceRef Business “SpaceX completed what appears to be a successful divert test yesterday of its Falcon 9 Test Rig, code named Grasshopper. According to […]
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Long-term Lease for Pad 39A Almost Set
Lease on Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39 may be near, Bolden says, Florida Today “A long-term lease of a mothballed Kennedy Space Center launch pad may still be near, NASA […]
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Fighting Innovation at Pad 39A
New Uses For Launch Pad 39A: Threatening The Status Quo “While news stories focus (inaccurately) on a contrived rivalry between space billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, entrenched interests in […]
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SpaceX to Use KSC Pad 39A?
No Contest for Pad 39A? SpaceX Appears To Be Only Bidder, Space News “Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) appears to be the only company that put in a proposal to […]
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SpaceX Grasshopper Software First
Grasshopper 325m Test | Single Camera (Hexacopter) [Watch],SpaceX “On June 14, SpaceX’s Grasshopper flew 325 m (1066 feet)–higher than Manhattan’s Chrysler Building–before smoothly landing back on the pad. For the […]
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SpaceX Meets Important CCiCap Milestones
NASA Commercial Crew Partner SpaceX Completes Two Human-Critical Reviews, SpaceRef Business “Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, Calif., recently completed two milestones for NASA’s Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) […]
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SpaceX IPO, Not so Fast
Twitter Post, Elon Musk “No near term plans to IPO @SpaceX. Only possible in very long term when Mars Colonial Transporter is flying regularly.” Marc’s note: This is an interesting […]
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Touting Commercial Crew Spaceflight on the Space Coast
Commercial Partners Working to Launch U.S. Astronauts from Space Coast, NASA “The three commercial space companies working with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) may have very different spacecraft and rocket […]