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SpaceX Falcon breakup

SpaceX rocket breaks up on latest resupply mission to Space Station

Updated with video below. An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and scientific experiments for the International Space Station broke up… Read More

Enter SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod design contest for fame, glory, bragging rights

If you dream of perfecting Hyperloops, this contest is for you. SpaceX announced a competition to design and build a… Read More

You can now play the video game Elon Musk wrote at age 12

Before there was Space X and Tesla, there was Blastar. And now, thanks to a Google software engineer, you can… Read More

Space-age heels: How SpaceX’s rocket science is inspiring a better shoe

Heels. Personal trainers, physical therapists, podiatrists cringe when you wear ’em. But, dang, if the right pair of heels doesn’t… Read More

From space to schools, Elon Musk takes on the education system by starting a new school

In an interview for Chinese television, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he has created a new kind of grade school… Read More

The 10 best moments in the new Elon Musk book

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is out today and filled with more rock-star moments and… Read More

SpaceX unveils new vintage-style posters of Mars, the ‘ultimate vacation destination’

Retro-style posters are always cool, and these SpaceX posters promoting travel to Mars are a great nod to classic travel… Read More

Inside the frightening, delightful world of Elon Musk

The book about Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk is due out May 19, but a few choice quotes are already giving… Read More

Video: SpaceX succeeds with first Dragon abort test, says humans would have survived

SpaceX said its abort test on Wednesday would have kept humans safe. For the first time, the Elon Musk-led company tested an eject… Read More

How to watch SpaceX test its Dragon capsule launch abort system

SpaceX is running another space travel test on Wednesday, this time to make sure its abort procedures are working properly.… Read More

New Shepard launch

Blue Origin spaceship makes first test flight, with founder Jeff Bezos in the control room

Blue Origin, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ space venture, launched the first developmental test flight of its New Shepard spacecraft in… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: How a new startup movement is energizing Seattle’s Central District

Students in Seattle’s Central District are adept users of technology, like teenagers everywhere. But now they’re becoming makers of technology, as well. That’s… Read More

Incredible video: SpaceX attempts to land Falcon 9 rocket on a barge, again

Just how close did SpaceX come to successfully landing its Falcon 9 rocket on its “autonomous drone ship” in the… Read More

SpaceX and Elon Musk get the ‘Uptown Funk’ treatment

It seems all the world’s fascinated with SpaceX’s attempts to get a rocket to launch and land. So much, in… Read More

SpaceX set for another Falcon 9 landing attempt; new Planetary Resources satellite on board for Space Station

Update, 1:30 p.m.: Monday’s launch has been scrubbed due to weather. Another launch will be attempted on Tuesday at 1:10… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completes key early testing of new hydrogen rocket engine

Blue Origin, the commercial space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, says it has completed acceptance testing of its… Read More

Elon Musk makes SpaceX photos free for public use

Talk about responsive. Less than an hour after Elon Musk announced that SpaceX would post photos for non-commercial use under… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin dealt setback in patent dispute with SpaceX over rocket landings

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a key preliminary ruling in its dispute with Blue Origin over a patent received by the Jeff… Read More

New poll shows that most Americans wouldn’t take a free trip to space

Enthusiasm for going beyond the great beyond doesn’t seem to resonant with most Americans, according to a new poll by Monmouth… Read More

SpaceX founder Elon Musk inks $3.5M book deal to write about Earth and Mars

Like he needed the cash, Tesla and SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk just signed a $3.5 million book deal with… Read More

SpaceX: Latest Falcon 9 landing attempt thwarted by 3-story waves in Atlantic

After multiple scrubs in recent days, SpaceX is counting down again for the launch of its first deep-space mission this afternoon,… Read More

FAA opens way for companies to stake claims to lunar rights

Do we have the right to reserve rights to the moon? Apparently so. At least that’s the message the U.S. government… Read More

SpaceX lands $1B investment from Google and Fidelity, fueling Seattle-based satellite venture

SpaceX just announced that it has raised a total of $1 billion from Google and Fidelity, confirming a report by The… Read More

SpaceX and Space Needle

How Elon Musk plans to get to Mars, via Seattle: What the SpaceX founder said at that private event

If Seattle needs inspiration to think big, it has arrived in the form of Elon Musk. The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO took… Read More

Report: Google in talks to invest in SpaceX, boosting Seattle-based satellite initiative

Google is close to making an investment in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the intent of supporting the commercial space company’s… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Amazon Echo’s Alexa joins us as our special guest

We’ve been waiting for a long time to talk with this week’s guest! Joining us on the GeekWire radio show is… Read More

Photos: SpaceX founder Elon Musk reveals new $10B ‘Space Internet’ plan at private Seattle event

Elon Musk stopped in Seattle on Friday evening, on his way to Mars. The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO slipped quietly into… Read More

Photos: SpaceX Dragon capsule delivered to Seattle Center for private event with Elon Musk

SpaceX has officially arrived in Seattle. As shown in these photos, posted to Facebook by the Cornish College of the… Read More

Watch this insane SpaceX rocket crash on Vine

SpaceX keeps on making headlines this week. Today it released footage of a Falcon 9 rocket crash-landing into a barge, which they… Read More

Elon Musk is building that hyperloop track he always wanted

Will be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their pods. Most likely in… Read More

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