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Home News Spaceflight SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk will donate $50 million to benefit childhood cancer research by the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, launching an ambitious fundraiser by the private Inspiration4 space mission beyond its $200 million goal.  Musk made the pledge late Saturday (Sept. 18) after the…

The Elon Musk-developed spacecraft splashed down in calm seas off Florida on Saturday evening. Four space tourists on board the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission safely splashed down off Florida’s coast on Saturday, completing the first-ever three-day mission in Earth’s orbit with no professional astronauts on board. The SpaceX Dragon capsule’s heat…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s Starlink satellite internet network would come out of its open beta phase next month. That’s two months later than the August date Musk gave at Mobile World Congress, when he also said he expected the service to have “possibly over 500,000…

Grimes, the pop singer, living anime character, and partner to future Martian colonist Elon Musk, made a recent appearance on Planet Earth at the Met Gala, wearing an outfit inspired by Frank Herbert’s science fiction universe, Dune. As a platoon of dressers prepped Grimes for the big event, Vogue chatted…

The Inspiration4 crew (L-R): Jared Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Chris Sembroski and Sian Proctor. The first space tourism mission by Elon Musk's SpaceX blasted off from Florida on Wednesday and the four crew members—a billionaire and three other Americans—have already seen more than 25 sunsets and sunrises. SpaceX has released few…

Clubhouse isn't just an app you can fire up to attend talks by famous people. It has different types of rooms you can use, including ones where you can have intimate, private conversations with friends — and in the future, you may be able to invite those friends to chat…

Starlink beta testing — With 600,000 orders, SpaceX boosting dish production to (hopefully) meet demand. Jon Brodkin - Sep 17, 2021 8:39 pm UTC Enlarge / Screenshot from the Starlink order page, with the street address blotted out. SpaceX's Starlink satellite-broadband service will emerge from beta in October, CEO Elon…

Once Starlink leaves beta, it should be more accessible for Canadians hoping to try out the service Elon Musk says Starlink will exit its beta phase “next month.” As it so often goes with Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Space X made the announcement in a tweet with precious…

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A view of the cupola window on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX The first all-civilian, privately-funded crew to reach orbit came through their initial hours in weightless environment of space “healthy, happy and resting comfortably,” SpaceX reported Thursday. Company founder Elon…

It’s SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s first entry in the competition for space tourism dollars. 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…