Why SpaceX Is The Snake Oil Peddler Of The Twenty-First Century
…knows if it succeeded, but many have expressed skepticism, citing possible errors on SpaceX’s end. There is plenty of reason for concern on the part of SpaceX, primarily because of…
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…knows if it succeeded, but many have expressed skepticism, citing possible errors on SpaceX’s end. There is plenty of reason for concern on the part of SpaceX, primarily because of…
…very different picture. Eric Berger of Ars Technica put together this helpful timeline of SpaceX’s relationship with NASA, which I will condense here. June, 2015: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blows…
…Harris, a space journalist who closely observes Musk and SpaceX, expressed, “Musk has launched SpaceX on its trajectory through sheer force of will. He hires the best engineers and works…
On Tuesday, billionaire Elon Musk announced on Twitter that he is working to start a city called “Starbase” surrounding the SpaceX launch site in southeast Texas. He is the SpaceX…
…funding to develop new spacecraft and rockets. SpaceX, a private space company founded by Canadian-American business magnate Elon Musk, is one of those contractors, along with companies such as Blue…
…city bus into orbit. SpaceX’s recent success has apparently sent some people over the moon with enthusiasm. Among them is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who used SpaceX’s February 6…
…the necessary launch vehicles is SpaceX, run by Elon Musk. Over the last five years, SpaceX has spent more than $8 million lobbying the federal government, and the company will…
Martian 1776 has arrived, according to SpaceX. In a set of recently released documents, the company announced it has no intention of following laws from any government on Earth once…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX wants to go to Mars with taxpayer money. That may never happen, but this week Congress might give the company the greatest gig it could ever receive…
…International Space Station aboard one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets, the first manned launch on American soil since the closure of NASA’s shuttle program a decade ago, and the first…
…all awarded after SpaceX had completed most of the development of both its Falcon 9 rocket and its Dragon capsule. With the Falcon Heavy, SpaceX took no government money at…
…in putting taxpayer dollars into the pockets of crony capitalist chieftains such as Elon Musk, whose SpaceX operation manages to get NASA to pay him to use its launch pads…
…new, thus far entirely independent, SpaceX. Things didn’t just go cleanly from there; politicians consistently squirmed about going private, preferring to keep politically profitable projects in their district backyards. But…
Billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos both rocked to the edge of space and safely landed back on Earth this month. Another billionaire, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla,…
SpaceX called the Starship’s second test flight on Nov. 18 a “success,” and Elon Musk predicted that the interplanetary rocket would bring about a “fork in the road of human destiny.” The…
…1969. The launch of the joint SpaceX–NASA rocket on May 30 is only the latest proof of our renewed interest, and it revealed much about the future of humans in…
…SpaceX employee put it, “Elon cares a lot about humanity, but humanity in more of a very macro sense.” At times, this can make him a flat, robotic main character….
…Origin beat SpaceX in having a rocket land successfully for reuse, and both companies have a friendly back and forth competition. A third company, Virgin Galactic, led by Richard Branson,…
Elon Musk, the PayPal co-founder who used his fortune to start a trio of “visionary” companies—Tesla, Solar City, and SpaceX—recently went beyond pitching the supposed virtues of his own technology…
…car subsidies, to the tune of $7,500 per vehicle, as well as government-enabled zero emission vehicle credits. SpaceX depends on large government procurement contracts. And SolarCity depends on renewable energy…
…with sarcasm, questioning the CCP’s human rights record. Yet Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, responded with a tweet, showering the CCP with over-the-top praise: “The economic prosperity that…
…that rivals the venerable Saturn V for ground thrust. That weight limit may soon be overtaken by the gargantuan “Starship” designed and built by SpaceX. Artemis expects to return people…
…in creation. Genesis, not science, undergirded his reply to Page: “Well, yes, I am pro-human. I f-cking like humanity, dude.” Musk founded SpaceX in the hope that multi-planetary civilization would…
…isn’t the first time Musk has made pie-in-the-sky promises to his investors, which often go unfulfilled. In March, SpaceX announced it planned to send two tourists to the moon by…
…to launch. In sharp contrast, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy (tapped by the IG as a potential replacement) has already been built and costs just $90 million to use. Why then,…
…hypocrisy is evident in the White House’s “antitrust” absurdity too. Right after Twitter accepted the buyout offer from Musk, who also controls SpaceX and Tesla, Psaki said the administration would…
…powerful than SLS, adding that he hopes SpaceX will have this rocket flying by 2022, the same year SLS’s first flight is scheduled. The total cost for Musk’s rocket will…
Last week, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of Twitter, owning 9.2 percent of the company. Musk, who has criticized Twitter’s lack of free speech for…
…after getting involved in the GamerGate controversy of 2014 and is now challenging sitting Rep. Stephen Lynch, tweeted that she isn’t happy about SpaceX’s plan to ferry private citizens to…
…NASA contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. However, the Senate is considering legislation that would give Blue Origin a $10 billion dollar contract through an amendment tacked onto the Endless Frontier…
…the past several years, private companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin have revolutionized space exploration, lowering launch costs and sparking a nascent space tourism industry. These developments have made the…
With the difficulties and disruptions of 2020, it’s no wonder that interest in leaving the planet has skyrocketed. While SpaceX and other space tourism companies are still working out details,…
…or UFO footage, or even a space shuttle launch, no longer do. These days, they seem to do the opposite. Consider the successful launch of SpaceX’s first manned flight in…
…U.S. book market, particularly as book stores remain closed from state and local lockdowns. The decision to keep Berenson’s title from being published even prompted scrutiny from SpaceX/Tesla Founder Elon…
…absence from Washington for Wednesday’s legislative business. Crist however, held no such reservations in attending the NASA/SpaceX historic space launch on the same day, which was ultimately postponed to Saturday…
2020 Democratic presidential candidate and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang scored a major endorsement this weekend from fellow tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal who now leads SpaceX and…