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SpaceX Crew Dragon 'Resilience' docks with ISS
The crew joins two Russians and one American aboard the station, and will stay for six months.
US President-elect Joe Biden hailed the launch on Twitter as a 'testament to the power of science and what we can accomplish by harnessing our innovation, ingenuity, and determination,' while President Donald Trump called it 'great'.
A large chunk of his wealth comes from the 21% stake in Tesla, according to Forbes. Tesla shares, which went public at $17 a piece in 2010, rose as much as 3.5% in morning trade to a record high of $2,318.49.
US astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are scheduled to blast off from Kennedy's historic Launch Pad 39A on Wednesday for the International Space Station, arriving the next day.
SpaceX could launch US astronauts to the International Space Station as early as next year if tests on the company's long-delayed Crew Dragon capsule prove conclusive, Nasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Thursday.
Musk showed a crowd of space enthusiasts and reporters at SpaceX’s rocket development site late on Saturday in Texas, animations of Starship landing on the moon and Mars.
The craft blasted off to cheers from onlookers at 2:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) after a three-hour delay from the original launch time late Monday.
The craft blasted off to cheers from onlookers at 2:30 am after a three-hour delay from the original launch time late Monday.
In a call with reporters ahead of the evening launch, the billionaire entrepreneur praised the 'fundamental goodness' of his mission to expand internet connectivity globally but cautioned that success was far from guaranteed.
The middle booster, after pushing the payload into space, returned nearly 10 minutes later for a successful landing on SpaceX’s seafaring drone ship 645 km off the Florida coast.
The company said it will 'part ways' with some of its manpower, citing 'extraordinarily difficult challenges ahead.'
An orbital prototype is expected in June. That version will be paired with a massive rocket booster known as the Super Heavy.
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying a roughly $500 million GPS satellite built by Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 8:51 am local time.
The billionaire behind Tesla and SpaceX late Tuesday put the spotlight on the a 1.8 kilometre tunnel created by his Boring Company for about $10 million.
Maezawa will hitch a ride aboard Musk's Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which SpaceX has acknowledged may not be ready for human flight for at least five years.
On reaching space in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, Ispace plans to orbit its lunar lander around the moon.
A former drummer in a punk band, Maezawa’s moon flight is tentatively planned for 2023 aboard SpaceX’s forthcoming Big Falcon Rocket spaceship.
SpaceX gave no further details, but said more information would follow on Monday.
The SA-born entrepreneur successfully launched his new rocket called the Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday.