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Week in pictures: 30 May SpaceX

Week in pictures: 30 May

A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. Image copyright Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images Image caption A woman at a demonstration in Atlanta, Georgia. Across the US, protests erupted following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. Police vehicles were set…
bubmag
June 6, 2020
Tesla Analyst Values SpaceX At $50B, With Starlink The Biggest Growth Driver SpaceX

Tesla Analyst Values SpaceX At $50B, With Starlink The Biggest Growth Driver

Tesla Inc's (NASDAQ: TSLA) sister company, SpaceX, carried its first astronauts into orbit last week, making history for the private space industry. Achievements such as this have helped CEO Elon Musk attract investments for ambitious projects. SpaceX’s recent $125 million funding round brought the company to a $36 billion valuation, according…
bubmag
June 2, 2020
UPDATE 1-Russia applauds SpaceX launch but calls Trump’s reaction ‘hysteria’ SpaceX

UPDATE 1-Russia applauds SpaceX launch but calls Trump’s reaction ‘hysteria’

* Human spaceflight resumed from U.S. soil after hiatus * Move ended Russian monopoly on flights to space station * Moscow welcomes move, but questions Trump’s reaction (Adds Roscosmos chief comments) By Maria Kiselyova and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, May 31 (Reuters) - Russia’s space agency criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s…
bubmag
May 31, 2020
Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station SpaceX

Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station

Today at around 10:30 AM EDT (7:30 AM PDT), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will dock with the International Space Station, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. The two have been in flight on orbit since launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday at 3:22 PM…
bubmag
May 31, 2020
Russian space agency calls Trump’s reaction to SpaceX launch “hysteria” SpaceX

Russian space agency calls Trump’s reaction to SpaceX launch “hysteria”

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s space agency criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s “hysteria” about the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years, but also said on Sunday it was pleased there was now another way to travel into space. SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur…
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May 31, 2020