Elon Musk’s SpaceX Will Aim for Moon Instead of Mars
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The rocket company ran a Super Bowl ad for Starlink, the first time any of Elon Musk's companies have run an ad at the showpiece event.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 landed at Kennedy Space Center to conduct prelaunch tasks and prep for an 8-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
The small rocket and capsule have been flying since April 2015 and have combined to make 38 launches, all but one of which were successful, and 36 landings. In its existence, the New Shepard program flew 98 people to space,
Elon Musk believes that space is the answer to the AI data center energy problem. SpaceX says it is hiring "many engineers" to make it happen.
According to 13F filings, Alphabet's largest investment in another public company is AST SpaceMobile -- which accounted for 18% of the company's portfolio as of the end of the third quarter. In addition, Google owns an equity stake in SpaceX dating back to 2015.
The quartet's arrival will take the ISS back up to its normal complement of seven crewmembers. The station has been staffed by just three astronauts — one American and two Russians — since Jan. 15, when SpaceX's Crew-11 mission departed for Earth.
Elon Musk announces SpaceX's shift to prioritize building a lunar city over Mars, aiming for a self-growing settlement on the Moon.
Feb 9 (Reuters) - The U.S. labor board is abandoning a years-long legal battle against Elon Musk's SpaceX and signaling it will steer clear of future cases against the company, Bloomberg News reported on Monday,