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SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System liftoff

SpaceX’s Elon Musk geeks out over Mars interplanetary transport plan on Reddit

In the weeks ahead, SpaceX plans to pressure-test a prototype carbon fiber tank on an oceangoing barge, to gauge how well… Read More

Obama talks up NASA’s vision for sending astronauts on giant leap to Mars by 2030s

President Barack Obama is throwing a spotlight on NASA’s plan for Mars exploration – and habitation – in advance of this week’s White… Read More

Reality check: Elon Musk’s Mars plan will cost more, take longer. What else is new?

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In order to make the figures work for Elon Musk’s plan to put settlers on Mars, SpaceX will… Read More

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A million people on Mars? Explaining Elon Musk’s bold plan to colonize the Red Planet

Colonies on Mars are no longer restricted to the pages of sci-fi classics and the imagination of ambitious space geeks. These settlements… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk makes the big pitch for his decades-long plan to colonize Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made some ambitious sales pitches in his career, but today’s big reveal about his… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk tweets sneak peeks at interplanetary transport system for Mars

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – In advance of this week’s big reveal, SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, is dropping hints about the scale… Read More

SpaceX says probe into Falcon 9 launch pad blast points to helium system leak

SpaceX says an investigation into the launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload has… Read More

Elon Musk says launch-pad rocket fireball poses SpaceX’s biggest puzzle yet

SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, says the launch-pad explosion that resulted in the loss of a Falcon 9 rocket and… Read More

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg ‘deeply disappointed’ to lose his satellite in SpaceX’s rocket explosion

Today’s loss of a Falcon 9 rocket and its satellite payload was a bummer for Facebook billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg… Read More

SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down, bringing mice and more from space station

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean today, carrying more than 3,000 pounds of cargo and… Read More

Docking adapter installed on International Space Station

Space station crew installs a new front door for SpaceX and Boeing spaceships

The International Space Station now has a door that will let crews float in from the commercial space taxis that… Read More

Carbon fiber report whips up interest in SpaceX’s plans for a colony on Mars

Is SpaceX planning to buy billions of dollars’ worth of carbon fiber for future Mars-bound spaceships? The answer’s up in… Read More

SpaceX launches JCSAT-16 satellite, then lands Falcon 9 rocket at sea

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched a satellite for a Japanese communication company tonight, and then made a bull’s-eye landing on a floating… Read More

SpaceX’s HR guy addresses tales of overworked engineers and more on Reddit

SpaceX’s engineers are pursuing the high-flying goal of getting people to Mars, and by some accounts, the workload can lead… Read More

SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivers DNA sequencer and new door to space station

Two days after its launch, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule was pulled in for its hookup to the International Space Station today… Read More

Blue Origin and SpaceX vets raise cash for Relativity Space, a stealthy startup aiming to build rockets ‘with zero human labor’

Two engineers with experience at Blue Origin and SpaceX have raised almost $10 million for their own rocket startup, Relativity Space,… Read More

SpaceX rocket sends cargo ship to space station, then returns to land

SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station tonight with a couple of precedent-setting payloads on opposite… Read More

SpaceX speaks up for its Seattle satellite operation after months of low-key work

SpaceX has provided a rare update on its Seattle-centric plans to develop a multibillion-dollar Internet satellite network, saying that the… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 booster leans in for a landing at sea after launching satellite

For the third time in a row, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster sent a payload into space and then came back… Read More

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule splashes down, returning Scott Kelly’s samples

A month after delivering an expandable prototype habitat and other goodies to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule splashed down… Read More

Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videos

Will seeing a spaceship land on its feet ever get old? The novelty is still there in newly released videos… Read More

Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satellite

SpaceX increased the degree of difficulty for tonight’s Falcon 9 rocket landing attempt at sea after launching a Japanese satellite… Read More

GPS-3 is go: SpaceX wins its first national security launch contract … by default

SpaceX today won an $82.7 million contract to launch a GPS-3 navigational satellite into orbit for the U.S. Air Force,… Read More

SpaceX plans to start sending Red Dragon capsules to Mars as early as 2020

Update for March 22, 2017: SpaceX has shifted its schedule for the first Red Dragon mission to no earlier than… Read More

SpaceX Falcon booster comes full circle to Cape Canaveral after landing at sea

Eleven days after a thrilling landing at sea, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket booster is coming back to the company’s space-age garage… Read More

President Obama leads celebration on Twitter for SpaceX’s rocket landing at sea

SpaceX’s first-ever at-sea rocket landing was cause for a Twitter celebration that drew in President Barack Obama as well as other… Read More

SpaceX lands Falcon rocket at sea after launching a pop-up room to space station

SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule today with an expandable module for the International Space Station, and then successfully landed the… Read More

SpaceX gets ready to launch expandable module for NASA to test on space station

For the first time, SpaceX is due to launch an entire room to the International Space Station – a room that… Read More

ULA exec resigns after controversial comments about Blue Origin, SpaceX and U.S. government

The VP of Engineering at United Launch Alliance (ULA), Brett Tobey, has resigned after comments he made in a Tuesday… Read More

SpaceX’s Elon Musk turns the talk from Donald Trump to reaching Mars by 2025

SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, has had to bat down all sorts of reports about political associations over the past… Read More