SpaceX Founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Monday night that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will travel to the moon on SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). Maezawa is the founder and CEO of the online fashion retailer Zozo. "I choose to go to the moon."...
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The space observatory called TESS was launched into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. TESS has been in space for just over three months. It officially began its operations on July 25th. The main job is to look for planets outside our solar system. Related...
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Next week's lunar eclipse will last almost two hours, which will be the longest lasting lunar eclipse in 100 years. It will occur late on July 27 into the twilight hours of July 28. Related - New Moon Mapping Algorithm Leads to Discovery of 6,000...
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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has discovered a variety of organic molecules, the carbon-based building blocks of life in 3.5-billion-year-old Red Planet rocks. A new study published in Science shows conclusive evidence for large organic molecules on the planet. Related - Scientists Have Found Water Ice...
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The billionaire behind SpaceX and Tesla tweeted out the news on Saturday. Musk’s tweet seems to be in retaliation to a statement Warren Buffett made in response to a previous Musk comment. It all started when Musk criticized “moats” during an earnings call last week....
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Sometimes I feel bad for a billionaire. All of that pressure to send people into space has to be something that weighs on you constantly. But then I remember that I bought a taco with quarters a few weeks ago, and then I kinda forgot...
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS for short, will launch on April 16. Once in orbit, TESS will undergo tests and adjustments for sixty days before beginning its two-year mission. TESS is opening a door for a whole new kind of study. We’re going to...
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On Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission granted permission to Elon Musk's aerospace company to launch satellites into space. Musk can finally move forward with his plans to beam high-speed internet signals down to our planet from some 12,000 satellites in low Earth orbit. Related -...
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Elon Musk has eaten up a lot of news time with his SpaceX Falcon Heavy shooting up into the heavens with a Tesla strapped to it, and of course the Hyperloop. This time, it's more about the Hyperloop and the possibilities of the future. Musk has...
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What Will Happen to the Tesla Roadster and Starman? On Tuesday, SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy into space with a Tesla Roadster and crash dummy inside. The goal was to send the dummy, named ‘Starman,’ on orbit to Mars – and Musk predicted it...
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