Billionaire Jared Isaacman has made history in space – again. On Thursday, Isaacman floated outside a SpaceX capsule in the vacuum of space for 10 minutes. Isaacman, the billionaire CEO and founder of payment processing company Shift4 Payments, is part of the first all-civilian spacewalk – three years after leading a SpaceX mission in 2021 […]
SAO PAULO (AP) – A judge in Brazil’s Supreme Court on Friday seized about $3 million from bank accounts belonging to social media platform X and satellite-based internet service provider Starlink, both companies that Tech billionaire Elon Musk. The move from Judge Alexandre de Moraes The aim was to collect funds equal to the amount […]
A crew of four private astronauts made history in the early hours of Thursday morning when they opened the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule and conducted the first commercial spacewalk. The spacewalk, the riskiest part of the five-day Polaris Dawn mission, began at 6:12 a.m. ET as oxygen began flowing into the astronauts’ spacesuits. […]
A small step SpaceX’s purely civilian mission Polaris Dawn has achieved an incredible feat: the first commercial spacewalk. After billionaire mission commander Jared Isaacman and his crewmate Sarah Gillis completely depressurized their spacecraft, they carefully climbed out of their Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday morning to get a once-in-a-lifetime look at the Earth below them. […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tech billionaire conducted the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth on Thursday, a high-risk venture until now reserved for professional astronauts. Technology entrepreneur Jared Isaacman teamed up with SpaceX to test the company’s brand-new spacesuits on his chartered flight. The daring endeavor also involved SpaceX engineer Sarah […]
Technology billionaire Jared Isaacman became the first civilian to undertake a spacewalk early Thursday – despite having already traveled the farthest distance from Earth that a human has traveled since the Apollo moon missions. Footage of the daring stunt shows Isaacman, 41, jumping from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule shortly before 7 a.m. as he is […]
LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX launched a private shuttle into space early Tuesday morning. Four commercial astronauts just began their five-day journey from Cape Canaveral, Florida, but you could see it in the skies over Lynchburg! Until recently, space travel was only possible through government organizations such as NASA. Private space […]
If you missed the pre-dawn launch of SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission from Florida, you can rewatch it and see photos from the launch here. SpaceX sends Polaris Dawn crew on potentially dangerous mission Four private astronauts have launched on the Polaris Dawn mission with the plan to ascend three times higher than the International Space […]
WASHINGTON – Early Tuesday morning, people across the Washington DC area were treated to a spectacular view of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn rocket seen in the skies over the Washington DC region during launch on Tuesday Early Tuesday morning, people across the Washington DC area were treated to a spectacular view of […]
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft made an unmanned landing in New Mexico late Friday, ending a three-month test mission marred by technical problems that delayed the return of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. The astronauts, who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Starliner in June, had to remain in space because NASA […]
