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Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX for $15m over claims Elon Musk’s firm illegally trespassed on land | US News
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The maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for $15m over claims Elon Musk’s company trespassed and damaged a plot of its land. A lawsuit filed in Texas alleges SpaceX treated a plot of land owned by Cards Against Humanity as essentially its own for at least the past six…
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn: Billionaire Jared Isaacman becomes first person to take part in private spacewalk | Science & Tech News
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An American billionaire has become the first person to take part in a private spacewalk – against the spectacular backdrop of the Earth. A spacewalk is considered one of the most dangerous activities an astronaut can do in orbit. SpaceX Polaris Dawn spacewalk – live updates Image: Jared Isaacman outside the Dragon capsule. Pic: SpaceX…
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SpaceX: Drama of risky spacewalk was heightened as the crew made do without airlock chamber | Science & Tech News
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The first privately-funded spacewalk was box office from start to finish. With the air sucked out of the Dragon capsule, and the hatch open to the void of space, we watched as the billionaire bankrolling the Polaris Dawn mission hauled himself outside to reveal planet Earth below. This was never going to be a zero-gravity…
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SpaceX mission set to to attempt first-ever commercial spacewalk | Science & Tech News
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The crew of a privately-funded space mission will today attempt the first spacewalk by non-professional astronauts. The commander of the Polaris Dawn expedition – and one of his crewmates – will leave the relative safety of the SpaceX Dragon capsule more than 400 miles above the Earth and spend several minutes in the vacuum of…
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SpaceX blasts off billionaire and three other private astronauts for ‘risky’ first-ever spacewalk | Science & Tech News
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SpaceX has blasted off a crew of four private astronauts for the first-ever private spacewalk. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees are using the company’s new spacesuits and a redesigned spacecraft for the mission which launched on Tuesday morning from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Image: Pic: SpaceX…
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SpaceX given permission to destroy the International Space Station | Science & Tech News
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NASA has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX permission to destroy the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030. The space station has been continually occupied since 2000 by astronauts doing more than 3,300 scientific experiments above our heads. But the countries operating the ISS only agreed to run it until 2030 at the latest. Image: Sergei Krikalev…
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Giant SpaceX rocket blasts off in most successful test launch yet | Science & Tech News
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SpaceX’s Starship completed nearly its entire test flight after blasting off in a successful launch. The rocket cleared its launch pad in Texas, separated from its “Super Heavy Booster” and began coasting at an altitude of 145 miles. But it was eventually destroyed as it re-entered the atmosphere, the company said. However, it’s still the…
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NASA’s SpaceX crew leave treats behind on International Space Station as they splash down after months in orbit | Science & Tech News
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Four astronauts from four different countries have safely returned to Earth as they splashed down near Florida after 199 days in orbit. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 went around the planet 3,184 times during their more than six months on the International Space Station (ISS). The group was made up of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space…
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Four astronauts blast off to International Space Station on SpaceX rocket | Science & Tech News
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Four astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station for a six-month stint in orbit. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sunday, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin. Footage showed the rocket’s nine Merlin engines roaring into life…
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SpaceX launch: Secretive US spaceplane launches on Falcon Heavy rocket that can take it further than ever before | Science & Tech News
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A secretive US government spaceplane has embarked on a classified mission aboard one of the world’s most powerful rockets. The X-37B craft was launched from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. It has been on six previous missions since 2010, most recently in 2020, but the rocket used on Thursday…