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Electric car maker Teslas CEO Elon Musk gives the opening keynote at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Elon Musk unveils new Mars rocket prototype, expects missions in...

Starship is the top half of Musk's colossal interplanetary rocket system that stands 387 feet tall.

30 Sept 2019 7:45 AM IST

The prototype oven which can be used in microgravity was designed and built by Nanoracks and Zero G Kitchen while the Double Tree by Hilton hotel chain supplied the raw cookie dough.

Another giant leap for mankind as astronauts bake first space cookies

The cookies returned to Earth on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and will undergo testing by food scientists to determine...

25 Jan 2020 11:13 AM IST

Musk and engineers from his rocket company, SpaceX, built a small submarine and shipped it to Thailand to help with the rescue. (Photo: AP)

SpaceX says 'picture perfect' test paves way for human mission

SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing on Sunday in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned...

20 Jan 2020 1:39 PM IST

SpaceX is working on a crew capsule that could carry humans into orbit as early as next year. (Photo: AFP)

Bad weather forces delay of SpaceX simulated rocket failure test

SpaceX said in a tweet that it was standing down from the Crew Dragon capsule test because of high winds & rough seas in...

19 Jan 2020 2:54 PM IST

Scientists have eyed lunar water as a key resource for enabling long-duration astronaut missions on the moon, though its form and exact amount are unknown.

Japanese billionaire looks for a girlfriend as company on trip to Moon

A 44-year-old Japanese billionaire looking for a 'life partner' with whom he can share SpaceX's round trip to the Moon!

14 Jan 2020 11:32 AM IST

This artists concept shows a SpaceX Crew Dragon docking with the International Space Station as it will during a mission for NASAs Commercial Crew Program. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons)

A vacation on the ISS for the first space tourists likely in 2021

One seat already booked as Axiom Space sells three $55 million tickets for a 10-day trip to the International Space...

6 March 2020 8:13 PM IST

SpaceX success is bad news for Russia which was the sole transporter of astronauts since 2011

SpaceX success is bad news for Russia which was the sole transporter...

NASA gave up its shuttle programme in 2011 and since then has paid USD 80 million for each astronaut taken to the ISS on...

31 May 2020 4:21 PM IST

A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, May 30, 2020. (AP)

SpaceX sends two NASA astronauts to ISS in historic mission

Elon Musk's SpaceX now becomes the first commercial company to launch a rocket carrying humans into orbit

31 May 2020 10:32 AM IST

In this March 4, 2019 photo made available by NASA, the uncrewed SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, with its nose cone open to expose the docking mechanism, approaches the International Space Stations Harmony module. It was the first Commercial Crew vehicle to visit the ISS. (Photo | AP)

SpaceX's first ever commercial space flight a stepping stone to Elon...

For the eccentric CEO, this is just the beginning: He's planning to build a city on the red planet, and live there.

23 May 2020 9:22 PM IST

SpaceX plans to launch reusable Starships atop still-in-the-works rockets, carrying cargo or crew not only to low-Earth orbit but also the Moon and Elon Musks most desirable destination, Mars. The latest test model of the rocket is relatively plain: It stands a full-scale 100 feet (30 meters) tall and resembles a steel siloor stretched-out canwith a cap on top. (Photo | AP)

SpaceX's Mars rocket prototype has successful brief flight and landing

Mars is looking real, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk tweeted after the short hop. Progress is...

5 Aug 2020 10:08 PM IST

Elon Musk-led SpaceXs satellite broadband arm Starlink said that its service is available in many countries and it will be easier for it to get government approvals if it has a high number of pre-orders from India. (AFP Photo)

Elon Musk's Starlink aims to start broadband service in India from Dec...

Starlink Country Director for India Sanjay Bhargava in his social media post said that the pre-order from India has...

1 Oct 2021 3:47 PM IST

A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, May 30, 2020. (AP)

SpaceX to conduct 'humanity's first planetary defence test' to...

This will be the third flight for this Falcon 9's first stage booster

24 Nov 2021 1:19 PM IST