SpaceX news

SpaceX has simulated a rocket failure to find out if its abort system designed to save astronauts’ lives in case of an accident could match that of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft’s – which saved a Russian-American ISS crew in 2018.

Eccentric Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has launched an online appeal seeking a female companion – and potential “life partner” – to accompany him on his 2023 SpaceX journey around the moon.

The SpaceX craft Elon Musk hopes will one day take astronauts to Mars has taken a step forward, with the team building the 50-meter-tall (160 feet) capsule working around the clock to finish its huge dome.

Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has jokingly called on Elon Musk to pour all his resources into creating ‘warp drive’ technology. His suggestion resulted in dozens of memes being launched into internet orbit.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seeks to make the world happy with his Starlink project providing satellite Internet access. So far, he only managed to make astronomers across the world upset by rendering their telescopes blind.

Astronomers have witnessed a huge burst of wind in space for the first time, after detecting a gas cloud that extends hundreds of thousands of light-years from a galaxy.