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Future of Human Space Flight with Elon Musk

In just a few minutes SpaceX founder Elon Musk (also founder of the Tesla car company), will be speaking at the National Press Club in Washington DC, streamed live. The subject is the future of human space flight. If this interests you, tune in now.

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Space Tourism 2011

(Written with Catherine Otten) The space experience race is on. I have always wanted to go into space. It could happen sooner than we think. All I need is the money. According to the Space Tourism Society, billionaires such as Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, and Sir Richard Branson are spending hundreds of millions of dollars [...]

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch – success!

Update on previous post: The SpaceX company of Elon Musk launched its Falcon 9 into orbit for the first time today – this is one of the private spacecraft that NASA is counting on for future access to space. After one aborted launch attempt that shut down automatically when telemetry readings were not correct, a [...]

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SpaceX Launch of Falcon 9 today – watch it

The SpaceX company of Elon Musk is scheduled to launch its Falcon 9 for the first time today – this is one of the private spacecraft that NASA is counting on for future access to space. Live launch video feed is available right now. Watch if you can…

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SpaceX Successful Launch to Earth Orbit

We all would like some good news about the future. Here is some. One of the most impressive people I have met is Elon Musk, whom I have seen at Future In Review conferences. He was founder of PayPal as well as Zip2 Corporation, and after selling them poured his efforts and money into two [...]

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