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Photo by Pauline Acalin for The Verge SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has now given four presentations about his company’s Starship rocket, but all of those updates mostly focused on the vehicle’s external stats. Musk has barely touched on the technologies needed to kee…

SpaceX’s facility at Cape Canaveral just received a crucial new delivery: A Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule that it will be using for an upcoming in-flight abort test. This test, which will demonstrate the spacecraft and launch system’s ability to abo…

After committing to having a first crewed launch of its rocket ship in 2019, Blue Origin, the rocket manufacturer and launch services company backed by Jeff Bezos, is likely going to have to push that timeline back to 2020. Speaking onstage at TechCrunch Dis…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared a video of the inside of the prototype of its Starship rocket — the vessel he wants to use to bring people to the moon, and eventually to Mars. SpaceX revealed the stainless-steel prototype of the Starship, the Starship Mk 1, over…

After CEO Elon Musk shared new details about its in-development Starship spacecraft on Saturday, SpaceX has updated its website with a new section dedicated to the fully reusable cargo and passenger vehicle. The new Starship website also provides a bunch of i…

By Lilian Anekwe SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft at the Boca Chica facility Loren Elliott/Getty Elon Musk has said that his Starship spacecraft – which is designed to carry people to the moon and Mars – will begin orbital test flights in less than two months.…

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A prototype of SpaceX's Starship is pictured at the company's Texas launch facility on Saturday. The Starship spacecraft is a massive vehicle designed to eventually be able to take people to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Loren Elliott/Getty Images Speaking in…

Elon Musk's goal is to establish a city on Mars. SpaceX Elon Musk believes humans can and should become an interplanetary species. His new spaceship, he thinks, can help achieve that lofty goal. At the SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on Saturday, Musk…

SpaceX's much-heralded Starship reveal on Saturday night was undone somewhat by the fact that it's hard to maintain secrecy with a 165-foot vehicle. The Elon Musk-hosted evening presentation in Boca Chica, Texas gave viewers on the ground and watching from h…