Cave Explorer Dubbed ‘Pedo Guy’ Describes Hurt, Humiliation December 6, 2019 By Brian Melley LOS ANGELES — A British cave explorer who helped rescue a dozen boys and their soccer coach from a flooded...
Viewpoint: It’s Time to Regulate Outer Space September 11, 2019 By Adam Minter Last week, the European Space Agency reached out to to warn Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. that one of...
SpaceX Confirms Crew Capsule Destroyed in April Test Accident May 3, 2019 By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Nearly two weeks after a fiery explosion during a ground test of its new crew capsule,...
After Source of Explosion is Found, SpaceX Plans New Launch January 4, 2017 SpaceX plans to resume flights as early as next week after finding the cause of an explosion that destroyed a...
Musk Says Second SpaceX Accident ‘Difficult and Complex’ Failure September 14, 2016 By MARCIA DUNN SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk is calling last week’s launch pad accident the “most difficult and complex failure” in the...
Bezos’ Blue Origin Reusable Rocket Lands Safely, Challenging SpaceX November 25, 2015 By Tom Giles Jeff Bezos’s space-exploration company Blue Origin LLC achieved a key milestone: sending a rocket into space and then landing it...
Congressional Panel Questions NASA on Why it Isn’t Probing SpaceX Blast August 13, 2015 By Andrea Shalal A U.S. House panel this week asked NASA to explain why it hasn’t launched an independent review of the explosion...
SpaceX Still Uncertain Why Falcon 9 Rocket Exploded July 7, 2015 SpaceX is still homing in on why its Falcon 9 rocket exploded after liftoff last week, unable to resolve conflicting...
Another SpaceX Rocket Blows Up, Adding Snag to Musk’s Space-Taxi Vision July 1, 2015 Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s aim to transport astronauts aboard commercial spacecraft was set back Sunday when one of his unmanned cargo...
After Orbital Explosion, Future U.S. Rockets to Have Escape Towers October 31, 2014 By Irene Klotz Heeding a lesson from history, designers of a new generation of U.S. rockets will include escape systems to give crew...