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The Falcon Heavy Flies!

We have liftoff! At 3:45 PM EST, SpaceX had a successful launch of their Falcon Heavy rocket.  On this clear, sunny day, Kennedy Space Center is bustling with 100,000 people to watch the world’s largest rocket.  There has not been this much activity in the area since the last Space Shuttle mission in 2011. In […]

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SpaceX Will Fly It’s New Spacesuit on the Falcon Heavy Demo Flight

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed on Instagram last night that the company’s internally-designed spacesuit will be going for a ride to deep space. It will be launched as part of the company’s “fun” payload to accompany the first ever flight of the SpaceX’s long-in-development Falcon Heavy rocket. Liftoff is currently scheduled for Tuesday, February 6th during […]

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10 Things You Need to Know About SpaceX’s Historic Falcon Heavy Launch

1. Liftoff of the Falcon Heavy will occur on Tuesday, February 6th, during a 3-hour launch window that opens at 1:30 PM Eastern time. SpaceX has reserved the next day for launch as well. However, a looming Government shutdown on Wednesday night could delay the Falcon Heavy launch due to the facility and many personnel […]

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The Most Powerful Rocket in the World is Set for its Maiden Flight

CAPE CANAVERAL,FL–– On Wednesday, January 24th, SpaceX fired up its triple-booster Falcon Heavy rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At precisely 12:30 PM Eastern time, and In just under 12 seconds, the Elon Musk-founded private spaceflight company simultaneously lit up the heavy-lift rocket’s 27 Merlin engines. It was the most powerful engine or rocket […]

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Air Force Says SpaceX Not to Blame for Zuma Failure

On January 7th, 2018, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Zuma spacecraft for an unknown branch of the military or clandestine agency. The goal was to deliver Zuma to low-Earth orbit, and at the time, it seemed that SpaceX was successful in doing so. However, the next day, it was first reported by […]

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What It Was Like to See the First Rocket Land on Earth (Hint: Insane)

The first time Elon Musk’s SpaceX dared to bring home their workhorse Falcon 9 rocket marked a turning point for the aerospace industry. In the 60-year storied history of spaceflight, rockets have always suffered the dismal fate of crashing in the ocean, never to fly again. After being used just once. One December evening, this […]

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SpaceX Is Ready to Fire Off a Reusable Rocket. Watch With us Live.

Star Letters contributors are joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX today at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a sunset rocket launch. And it’s not just any kind of rocket launch. SpaceX has refurbished a Falcon 9 booster that previously launched a resupply mission to the International Space Station earlier this year and will now refly it […]

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Why You Should Witness (And Bring Your Kids) To A Rocket Launch!

We live in the time before the time of regular space travel. Folks at companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Orbital, and SpaceX are the companies that fire off rockets on American soil. Sometimes those vehicles liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, and of course, Cape Canaveral in […]

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Elon Musk Has Updated SpaceX’s Plans for Colonizing Mars. Here’s What We Know

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia to give an update on how the company will one day colonize Mars. Here’s what we know: 1. The new version of the Big Fucking Rocket (BFR) or Interplanetary Transport System is slightly smaller than what SpaceX originally […]

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SpaceX Has Revealed Its Spacesuits. So When Are We Going To See Them Fly?

SpaceX is taking on the monumental task of returning humans to the Moon for the first time in 45 years. They plan to do so with a lucrative tourism mission targeted for late next year, and recently, SpaceX revealed the spacesuits that those brave passengers (and future adventurers) will wear. “Our space suits are really […]

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