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Home News This pressure vessel, which came from the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, fell onto a farm in central Washington, local authorities reported April 2, 2021.  (Image credit: Grant County Sheriff/Twitter)A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone's farm in central Washington,…

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Astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Soichi Noguchi put on their SpaceX pressure suits for a fit check last week in preparation for relocation of the Crew Dragon “Resilience” spacecraft outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/JAXACommander Mike Hopkins and his three crewmates will board their Crew Dragon…

Home News Spaceflight This pressure vessel, which came from the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, fell onto a farm in central Washington, local authorities reported April 2, 2021.  (Image credit: Grant County Sheriff/Twitter)A piece of debris from a SpaceX launch has turned up on someone's farm in central…

Endeavor is upping its stake of UFC ownership to 100-percent of the company ahead of a planned initial public offering, opening up the company to institutional and retail investors. When Endeavor acquired the UFC from Zuffa LLC for slightly more than $4 billion in 2016, it owned 50.1-percent of the…

SpaceX is going to put cryptocurrency on the moon, the company's CEO Elon Musk has claimed. In a tweet posted around 6:25am ET April 1, Musk wrote: "SpaceX is going to put a literal Dogecoin on the literal moon." Within four hours, the tweet had gained about 200,000 likes and…

SpaceX Batches Major Starship Prototype Upgrades Brian Wang | March 31, 2021 | Elon Musk says the SN15 rolls to launch pad in a few days. It has hundreds of design improvements across structures, avionics/software and engine. Next major technology rev is at SN20. Those ships will be orbit-capable with…

The flight, scheduled for no earlier than Sept 15, is expected to last three to four days from launch to splashdown. A college science professor and an aerospace data analyst were named on Tuesday to round out a four-member crew for a SpaceX launch into orbit planned later this year…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX chalked up another failed landing Tuesday for its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship, as the prototype Mars rocket broke apart right before touchdown. A camera on the rocket froze not quite six minutes into the test flight, and dense fog in South Texas obscured views of…

All it takes is luck and a dream, and a 38-year-old billionaire. Jared Isaacman, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, announced Tuesday the names of the final two passengers who will accompany him on a three-day rocket ride circling the Earth. By purchasing the ride from SpaceX — the company started by…