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Elon Musk: The Man Who's Leading America's Charge Back to Space
If you're looking for a way to lose billions of dollars, blow up a lot of expensive hardware and possibly even kill people in the bargain, you couldn't pick a...
Tesla Beats the Odds — And the Haters — But Now Comes the Hard Part
The electric car company Tesla has always been an easy target. There's the CEO, messianic Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elon Musk, who sometimes actually seems to...
Charged Debate
Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, gave us SpaceX rockets and the Tesla battery-powered roadster. His latest innovation is a project that has long been as...
Splashdown! Dragon Returns Safely and SpaceX Scores Big
Even before Elon Musk's Dragon spacecraft splashed this morning at 11:42 AM EST, two minutes ahead of schedule, Musk was already promising better things to come...
Tesla Motors Pours Cold Data on New York Times ‘Model S’ Review
Tesla Motors promised to release the logs detailing New York Times critic John Broder's road trip in the Tesla Model S electric car. They're finally available...
SpaceX Dragon’s Engine Problem May Be Fixed
(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — SpaceX says it looks like an engine problem with its orbiting Dragon capsule has been fixed. But the vessel's arrival at the...
Rocket Man
Eighteen months ago, Elon Musk launched a 50-lb. wheel of cheese into space. Really. Musk was preparing for the first orbital test of his brand-new Dragon...
Can James Cameron -- or Anyone -- Really Mine Asteroids?
Time was, incredibly rich guys bought sports teams. It was fun, it was affordable (by incredibly rich guy standards, at least) and it kept them off the streets...
A Dragon Shakes Hands With the Space Station
There's a little purple dragon on the Capcom console in Mission Control in Houston. But even if you had been in the room this morning, you could be forgiven for...
The Space Cowboys
This is, without a doubt, the sexiest setting ever for a meeting of aspiring astronauts: under swaying palm trees on the beach of a private island owned by...
Articles from Around the Web
Commercial Spaceflight Industry Drifts Back to Earth
But last week's launch hiccup showed that the private space operator, helmed by Elon Musk, has a few issues to work out, just like stodgy old NASA. [ More ] ...
Tesla Electric Car Sales Growing, But So Are Financial Losses
Sales of Tesla Motors Inc.'s electric cars are booming and the company is on its way to profitability, CEO Elon Musk told investors yesterday. [ More ] ...
Pack your bags for a move to Mars
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the...
