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Astronauts Traveling to Mars Will Have Their Brains Bombarded by Radiation

Elon Musk made it pretty clear than anyone hoping to colonize the Red Planet has made a tactic agreement to be a blood sacrifice to SpaceX. Fine, no one said space travel was safe. But the survivors have a new danger to consider: space brain. In a study published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, scientists at…

Space & Spaceflight Avery Ellis Oct 10

T-Mobile CEO Says He’ll Send Someone to Mars If He Gets 1 Million Retweets

John Legere, the CEO of T-Mobile, has promised to give away a trip to Mars if this tweet gets a million retweets by October 11th. That’s right, the CEO of a major American company is promising something that doesn’t exist using the tactics of a common chain letter. Remember chain letters? We used to get…

Tech News Matt Novak Oct 5

SpaceX Reportedly Investigating Sabotage as Cause of Falcon 9 Explosion

As SpaceX’s investigation of a Falcon 9 rocket explosion on September 1st drags into its second month, rumors are flying that this may have been more than a random technical failure. According to a Washington Post report, SpaceX is considering the possibility of sabotage. In a Holmesian twist to the investigation of the sudden fireball…

Space & Spaceflight Maddie Stone Oct 3

Is Elon Musk’s Crazy Mars Plan Even Legal?

Earlier this week, Elon Musk revealed his plan to make humanity a multi-planetary species by building an express train to Mars. There are a lot of open questions about how this will work, technically speaking, and who will pay for it. But there’s another fundamental issue that must be addressed before anybody can reserve a…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 29

How Crazy Is Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars?

Yesterday, billionaire tech entrepreneur and noted late guy Elon Musk unveiled his hotly-anticipated plan to send humans to live—and die—on Mars. And not just a few humans: a lot of them. In a talk that wavered between overreaching science fair presentation and straight-up science fiction, Musk described sending fleets of spacecraft, each packed hundreds of…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 28

SpaceX Wants to Venture Much Further Out Into the Solar System

Elon Musk finally revealed his plans for a mission to Mars today. But a new set of images from SpaceX show the Interplanetary Transport System going even further in the solar system than the Red Planet. As we speculated yesterday, the plans for the ITS do, indeed, go well beyond Mars. Musk confirmed an interest…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 27

How Elon Musk Plans to Go to Mars

SpaceX plans to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars, according to its founder Elon Musk. But, while we now know a lot more about how SpaceX plans to get to Mars, details about how people will actually survive up there remain sketchy. Musk dropped the news on Tuesday during an address at the International Astronautical…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 27

Watch Elon Musk Reveal His Plan to Colonize Mars

We’re finally going to hear Elon Musk’s plans for a mission to Mars. You can watch along to find out what it is at 2:30pm EDT. In the meantime, here’s some of what we expect to hear—and what it means to finally put a person on Mars. [Update: And here’s some video concept art of…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 27

SpaceX Just Passed a Major Milestone on Its Mission to Mars

SpaceX has been talking up its Martian travel plans for a while now, but we still don’t know how it intends to get (or survive) there. As of today, however, it’s cleared a major hurdle: the rocket engine it will use to get to the Red Planet just fired-up for the first time. Company founder…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 26

SpaceX Figured Out Why Its Expensive Rocket Exploded

Earlier this month, we watched a SpaceX rocket—fully loaded with its satellite—explode suddenly and inexplicably. At the time, the cause remained a mystery, but now SpaceX’s engineers have traced the flaw to its source. SpaceX has released the initial results of its investigation, which reveal that it believes a breach in the helium system in…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 23

SpaceX Will Start Launching Rockets Again in November

Two weeks ago, a SpaceX rocket inexplicably burst into flames, taking its satellite payload up in smoke. Now the space company has given a date for when we can expect to see its rockets back in the air. “We’re anticipating getting back to flight, being down for about three months, and then back to flight…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 14

Elon Musk Is Having a Very Hard Time After Last Week’s Explosion

The cause of the enormous blaze last week that destroyed a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Mark Zuckerberg’s $95 million internet satellite remains unknown. And it could take SpaceX a long time to solve the mystery, judging from the way Elon Musk has been tweeting this morning. For the first time since the…

Tech News Maddie Stone Sep 9

Owner of Satellite On Doomed SpaceX Rocket Wants $50 Million

Facebook wasn’t the only one who saw millions of its dollars go up in smoke when a SpaceX rocket exploded on a Cape Canaveral launch pad last Thursday. Facebook was actually making use of a satellite operated by Spacecom, an Israeli-based satellite operator, in it’s attempt to expand internet use on the entire continent of…

Social Media Alex Cranz Sep 4

SpaceX Says Investigation Will Examine Just Milliseconds of Footage From Rocket Explosion

In an update posted to its website, SpaceX announced that its investigation of Thursday’s Falcon 9 explosion, which began “immediately after the loss,” will center on mere milliseconds worth of footage. “We are currently in the early process of reviewing approximately 3,000 channels of telemetry and video data covering a time period of just 35…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Sep 3

Elon Musk Says It Wasn’t an Explosion That Took Out SpaceX’s Rocket

Yesterday, one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets went up in a blaze of flames, taking its satellite payload right along with it. But it wasn’t an explosion, says company founder Elon Musk. Instead, what we saw was just a really fast fire. Musk took to Twitter to note the difference: Musk believes that the SpaceX…

Tech News Ria Misra Sep 2

Elon Musk’s Bad Day Was Much Worse Than We Thought

Yesterday, Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a test fire. But that wasn’t all—by the time the day was over, Musk had also lost nearly $780 million and Mark Zuckerberg’s love. According to Bloomberg, Musk’s fortune shrank by $779 million on Thursday, although the reasons don’t appear to be explosion-related. Rather, they can be…

Social Media Sophie Kleeman Sep 2

What Today’s Explosion Means for the Future of SpaceX

This morning, a routine test firing of a SpaceX rocket ended in a fiery explosion, destroying both the vehicle and its payload, a communications satellite that Facebook planned to use for beaming free internet down to Africa. As the smoke begins to clear, the future of SpaceX remains clouded in uncertainty. The explosion took place…

Tech News Ria Misra Sep 1

A SpaceX Rocket Just Exploded at Cape Canaveral

There’s been an explosion on SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral launch complex. Apparently, a Falcon 9 rocket is in flames, and several images of a smoke plume rising above the complex suggest that something is very wrong. Following a flurry of tweets about the explosion, NASA confirmed that there was indeed a series of explosions. The AP…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Sep 1

SpaceX Is Finally Sending a Used Rocket Back Into Space

Having gotten pretty good at landing their rockets, SpaceX will now towards the other half of its plan to build fully reusable rockets: sending one of its used rocket back into space. The cargo for the mission will be a communications satellite from SES, the SES-10. Thanks to the success of the landing missions, however,…

Space & Spaceflight Ria Misra Aug 30

Watch Live as ISS Astronauts Spacewalk to Install a New Door

Home improvement projects are rarely interesting, unless you’re an astronaut. Right now NASA’s Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams are installing the first of two new docking adapters into the side of the International Space Station which will accommodate Boeing and SpaceX crafts. Bolting on a door may not sound like big news, but once the…

Tech News Avery Ellis Aug 19

Astronauts Traveling to Mars Will Have Their Brains Bombarded by Radiation

T-Mobile CEO Says He’ll Send Someone to Mars If He Gets 1 Million Retweets

SpaceX Reportedly Investigating Sabotage as Cause of Falcon 9 Explosion

Is Elon Musk’s Crazy Mars Plan Even Legal?

How Crazy Is Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars?

SpaceX Wants to Venture Much Further Out Into the Solar System

How Elon Musk Plans to Go to Mars

Watch Elon Musk Reveal His Plan to Colonize Mars

SpaceX Just Passed a Major Milestone on Its Mission to Mars

SpaceX Figured Out Why Its Expensive Rocket Exploded

SpaceX Will Start Launching Rockets Again in November

Elon Musk Is Having a Very Hard Time After Last Week’s Explosion

Owner of Satellite On Doomed SpaceX Rocket Wants $50 Million

SpaceX Says Investigation Will Examine Just Milliseconds of Footage From Rocket Explosion

Elon Musk Says It Wasn’t an Explosion That Took Out SpaceX’s Rocket

Elon Musk’s Bad Day Was Much Worse Than We Thought

What Today’s Explosion Means for the Future of SpaceX

A SpaceX Rocket Just Exploded at Cape Canaveral

SpaceX Is Finally Sending a Used Rocket Back Into Space

Watch Live as ISS Astronauts Spacewalk to Install a New Door

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