The development of the largest ultra-super- heavy launch system ever designed in history has been progressing at a jaw-dropping pace, and CEO Musk is comfortable that it will reach space sometime next year. The National Academies held their first virtual joint fall meeting of the Space Studies Board and the Board on Physics and Astronomy. Musk was given the opportunity to respond to questions from Academy members on the next-gen system during the Q&A session after the talk.
Musk said that his company will attempt to launch its bullet-shaped spaceship to space in January, but he is not betting on success. He said that there was a lot of risk associated with the first launch, but that they would make a lot of progress. Musk said he's confident that the spaceship will reach its intended destination sometime in 2022.
Musk owned at least seven million dollar houses in California, including six in the Los Angeles area.
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Gaetz said he would consider hiring Rittenhouse as a congressional intern if he believed he was innocent.
The Philippines condemned the actions of three Chinese coast guard vessels that it said used water cannon on boats that were headed towards a Philippine-occupied atoll in the South China Sea. The Philippines boats transporting food to military personnel based there had to abandon their mission after Tuesday's incident at the Second Thomas Shoal, but Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin said no one was hurt.
Nathan Drake is seen whipping up cocktails in the trailer for the movie based on the video game.
The Department of the Interior auctioned off leases to drill for oil in an 80 million-acre section of the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday.
Pfizer said on Thursday that it had signed a $5.29 billion deal with the US government to deliver 10 million courses of its experimental COVID-19 antiviral drug. The Pfizer pill price is lower than that of the Merck pill, but the contract the U.S. government has with them is larger. Pfizer applied for emergency authorization of Paxlovid this week after it was reported that it was 89% effective in preventing hospitalization or death in at-risk people.
Investment manager Cathie Wood says that General GM and Ford Motor may not have done enough to grow their EV business.
The future of virtual worlds may be built by Facebook and Nvidia, but another sector could see earnings grow by 25% by 2030.
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Despite warnings from Putin, the Russian oil line to the EU was shut down.
The US special-operations community is looking for ways to remain relevant in a different type of conflict.
A vehicle that could change space travel is being built by Musk's company.
The longest partial lunar eclipse in centuries will occur in November.
A piece of rock that sticks close to Earth in its elliptical path around the Sun may be a piece of the Moon, according to a new study. A new study in the journal Nature Communications E is free to subscribe to.
The Challenger Learning Center will host a pre-launch party for the telescope on November 20.
Jessica Watkins is set to become the first black woman to live and work in space when she is on a long-duration mission.
Chris Sembroski was one of the first people to fly on the Crew Dragon capsule.
