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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…

BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, TexasElon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly. In a livestreamed speech from SpaceXs launch facility ne…

Elon Musk Says SpaceX's New Starship Spacecraft Will Orbit Earth in Six Months - Bloomberg TicToc

The night before Elon Musk revealed the latest plans for his next-generation Starship, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine set out to rain on the rocket-makers parade with a tweet. I am looking forward to the SpaceX announcement tomorrow, the former Oklahoma …

NASA has already spent billions on S.L.S., first announced in 2011, and Orion, the crew-carrying capsule, although this has not stopped appropriators in Congress from continuing to finance work on it. The first S.L.S. flight has been delayed for years; it is …

BOCA CHICA VILLAGE, Texas — Elon Musk has a Starship, and one day he expects it will help SpaceX reach other worlds.   Standing beneath a towering Starship Mk1, a prototype for SpaceX's massive reusable launch system, Musk laid out his plan for interplanetar…

During an update on the SpaceX Starship program, Elon Musk just showed off a brief clip that explained part of the plan for using these vehicles to reach Mars. It involved a Starship in orbit around Earth, meeting a similarly-sized vehicle to refuel before it…

The prototype SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will present on today sounds like something straight out of science fiction: its long-hyped Starship Mk1 spacecraft, a next-generation rocket the company describes as a fully, rapidly reusable transportation system designed …

SpaceX is all set to show off its Starship Mk1, a orbital-scale prototype of the spacecraft it eventually plans to use to attain its goal of fully reusable commercial spaceflight. Starship is the key ingredient not only to fully reusable launch and cargo vehi…

Neither SpaceX nor Boeing, which also received a contract for providing transportation for NASA astronauts, appears to be on track to launch crews this year. When the contracts were awarded in 2014, NASA hoped that the flights would begin as early as 2017. W…