The world’s richest man lent his considerable weight to Donald Trump’s campaign. Elon Musk is now even richer – and he has all-areas access to the president-elect.
The world’s richest person has a lot riding on the outcome of the US election.
An action-packed month for Musk reminded me of the old futurist Elon,the visionary who wanted to change the world.
A SpaceX capsule carrying three Americans and one Russian parachuted before dawn into the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast.
The mechanical SpaceX arms were able to catch the Starship rocket booster back at the launch pad.
The capsule carried just half the regular crew,leaving two seats open for “Suni” Williams and “Butch” Wilmore,who have been stuck on the space station for months.
Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness,radiation and being in close quarters. How do astronauts do it?
The mission was Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s latest and riskiest bid to push the boundaries of commercial spaceflight.
The Falcon 9 crew is shooting for an orbit far beyond the International Space Station — an altitude of 1400 kilometres,which surpasses the record set by NASA’s Project Gemini in 1966.
NASA deemed the capsule’s troublesome thrusters unsafe for the return journey for two astronauts,creating the latest humiliation for Boeing at the hands of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The astronauts have been stuck at the International Space Station since the beginning of June – and will spend more months in space before returning to Earth.