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SpaceX is gearing up for the second high-altitude flight test of its next-generation Starship rocket. As part of preflight preparations, the commercial space transportation company fired up the SN9 prototype’s three Raptor engines a total of three times at its facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon. With SN9…

SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft departs the International Space Station Tuesday. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight NowA SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule parachuted to an on-target splashdown Wednesday night west of Tampa, returning more than two tons of experiment specimens from the International Space Station, including live rodents and a dozen bottles of space-aged…

Working out the Raptors — "Today at SpaceX is about practicing Starship engine starts." Eric Berger - Jan 14, 2021 12:46 am UTC Enlarge / The Sun glints around the lower fin of Starship SN8 on Dec. 9, 2020. Trevor Mahlmann On Wednesday, in South Texas, SpaceX fired up its…

by Jeff Foust — January 13, 2021 Intuitive Machines will launch its IM-2 lunar lander mission, carrying a set of NASA payloads, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 no earlier than 2022. Credit: Intuitive Machines WASHINGTON — SpaceX secured contracts Jan. 13 for the launches of a commercial lunar lander mission…

This is just the nose of Starship SN8. Elon Musk SpaceX continues working toward another high-altitude test flight of its next-generation spaceflight system. The latest prototype of Elon Musk's Starship, which is identified by the serial number SN9, underwent a series of three static test fires on Wednesday, Jan. 13.…

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who turns 57 on January 12, was born in New Mexico to a teenage mother and father.  Even at a young age, he showed a knack for engineering and inventing. You might not know that…

Home News Spaceflight SpaceX's CRS-21 Cargo Dragon is seen docked to a port on the Harmony module of the International Space Station. It's planned return to Earth on Jan. 11, 2021 was delayed by bad weather at its Atlantic Ocean splashdown site. (Image: © NASA TV) Poor weather on Earth…

The departure of SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon from the International Space Station was postponed on Monday morning because of weather in the splashdown zone off the east coast of Florida. The uncrewed spacecraft was initially scheduled to undock at 9:25 a.m. ET. but was pushed back to 10 a.m. ET on account of…

Peter Thiel may be the most successful venture capitalist of his era, with a resume that spans from Facebook to SpaceX to Airbnb. But no venture capitalist bats 1000, and Thiel's biggest whiff was of much greater consequence than pushing a mediocre app into the market. Flashback: Just days before…

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