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Reports say President Elect Donald Trump named Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new “Department of Government Efficiency” The roles would be providing advice and guidance from outside the government to the White House and its office management and Budgeting. Trump announces Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new […]
Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) since June, welcomed a SpaceX capsule that will bring them home in 2024. SpaceX launched a rescue mission on Saturday with a crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams. This came after NASA deemed […]
The Polaris Dawn mission, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, aims to conduct the world’s first commercial spacewalk. Four astronauts, including mission commander Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, have trained extensively to prepare for the risks of spacewalking. If successful, Isaacman and Gillis will exit their Dragon capsule to float […]
A recent SpaceX rocket failure has left 20 Starlink satellites in a dangerously low orbit, leading to their inevitable reentry and destruction in Earth’s atmosphere. The Falcon 9 rocket, launched from California on July 11, 2024, experienced an upper stage engine malfunction due to a liquid oxygen leak. This is SpaceX’s first failure in nearly […]
With the unidentified flying objects that were shot down by U.S. military people notice everything in the sky. In Western N.Y., there were several sightings of something like a light beam across the sky Monday. It has been confirmed that it was a SpaceX Starlink Satellite by the SpaceX website. It is a satellite constellation […]
With the unidentified flying objects that were shot down by U.S. military people notice everything in the sky. In Western N.Y., there were several sightings of something like a light beam across the sky Monday. It has been confirmed that it was a SpaceX Starlink Satellite by the SpaceX website. It is a satellite constellation […]
Space X has been testing a new prototype rocket that will hopefully take the first humans to mars in the near future, but they still have work to do. In the most recent test of the Starship S9 rocket, the vehicle shot a few miles into the air, hovered for a bit and then did […]
Elon Musk told the world on social media that he might have COVID-19. He said that he took 4 tests in one day, 2 of which were positive and 2 of which were negative. It is unclear as too whether or not this news will impact the SpaceX plans to launch astronauts to the international […]
On May 31st a SpaceX crew named Dragon–the spacecraft’s name is Endeavour–took off in a Falcon 9 rocket located at the Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Whether or not they land today comes down to, the weather. What I want to know is–who is in charge of naming these things? […]
Astronauts at the ISS recently tweeted a picture of the great lakes region where Rochester is clearly visible. Doug Hurley, an astronaut part of the recent mission where NASA crew members used a SpaceX ship to launch from U.S. soil tweeted a picture and commented: “I stayed up late last night to spend some time […]