The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday conducted a virtual public hearing to draw views for an environmental review of the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s proposed Starsip launch program at Boca Chica, Texas, Valley Central reported. What Happened The hearing has drawn about 100 comments from the public including residents, scientists and engineers, activists,…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Gets Wide Public Support and Some Criticism in First FAA Hearing Over Boca Chica Launch Program
Musk Tweets He Is in Talks With Airlines to Install Starlink Broadband
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said in a tweet on Thursday he was in talks with airlines about installing Starlink, a satellite-based broadband service owned by his rocket company SpaceX. Musk, who is known for his Twitter banter, announcements, and lively interactions with followers, did not provide any details about the talks in his tweet. It…
US Extends Environmental Review for SpaceX Program in Texas
WASHINGTON—The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Thursday it would extend the public comment period for the draft environmental review of the proposed SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy program in Boca Chica, Texas, to Nov. 1. The extension comes after federal and state agencies participating in the review made the request to extend the period for public…
NASA Awards SpaceX, Blue Origin, and 3 Other Companies $146 Million in Contracts to Go to the Moon
By Entrepreneur en Español The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, announced this week the award of five contracts for $146 million to U.S. companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, to design lunar landers. As reported by Forbes, these private companies will work over the next 15 months…
SpaceX Capsule With World’s First All-Civilian Orbital Crew Splashes Down Off Florida
The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida’s coast on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, parachuted into calm seas around 7 p.m. EDT, shortly before sunset, following…
SpaceX Capsule With World’s First All-Civilian Orbital Crew Set for Splashdown
The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission was due to splash down in the Atlantic off Florida on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit. To prepare for atmospheric re-entry and return to Earth, the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle completed two rocket…
SpaceX’s First Private Crew Motivates Children With Cancer From Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX’s first space tourists are taking in sweeping views of Earth that few have witnessed and motivating children with cancer. The four passengers showed off their capsule in a live broadcast Friday. They’re flying exceedingly high in the automated capsule, even by NASA standards. SpaceX got them into a 363-mile (585-kilometer) orbit following Wednesday…
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President Biden pushing his plan to tax the rich, to pay for his multi-trillion dollar spending proposal. Schools around the country facing a bus-driver shortage. One state is even deploying the national guard to take children to school. Another space launch, this time with four civilians in a SpaceX spaceship. Will SpaceX be the space-leader…
SpaceX Launches 4 Amateurs on Private Earth-Circling Trip
Cape Canaveral, Fla.—SpaceX’s first private flight streaked into orbit Wednesday night with two contest winners, a health care worker, and their rich sponsor, the most ambitious leap yet in space tourism. It was the first time a spacecraft circled Earth with an all-amateur crew and no professional astronauts. “Punch it, SpaceX!” the flight’s billionaire leader,…
LIVE: SpaceX Launch of First All-Civilian Crew Into Orbit
Elon Musk’s SpaceX venture launches Inspiration4, an all-civilian spaceflight which will be the first attempt at orbit around the Earth without a professional crew of astronauts. Jared Issacman, a billionaire who earned his fortune in the payment procession business; Haley Arcenaux, a physician’s assistant and childhood bone cancer survivor; Chris Sembrowski, a data engineer; and…
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