Jeff Bezos is promising a show today (Oct. 5) as his space-flight startup Blue Origin demonstrates a rocket-powered escape system, designed to provide maximum safety to future passengers.
“Did you work on that one a long time? That had a lot of really creative lines in it,” Indiana Governor Mike Pence sneered after Virginia Senator Tim Kaine delivered another scripted zinger about Donald Trump at this year’s debate for the two US vice presidential nominees.
Governor Mike Pence delivered some scathing opinions during the Republican presidential primary.
The extraordinary scale of Donald Trump’s business losses in 1995 suggest that he has avoided hundreds of millions in federal tax payments, but they also raise the question of whether Trump used a controversial strategy to do it.
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The SpaceX CEO said a colony on Mars will be a viable alternative to a doomsday event on Earth
Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, shared his company’s plans for bringing humans to Mars in a speech at the International Astronautical Congress that began at approximately 2:30pm EST. You can watch along with us here:
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A day before he plans to reveal the architecture of his “interplanetary transportation system,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered his Twitter followers a preview—the results of the first firing of the Raptor engine that will drive the system:
SpaceX is a company built to go to Mars, but are those ambitions getting in the way of its ability to achieve them?
Hillary Clinton is often portrayed in the media as isolated in a cocoon of staff and some kind of incomprehensible villain. Perhaps that’s why she often surprises the public with her humanity once it’s presented unfettered by those other narratives.
No, this isn’t a Donald Trump rally, but I’ve got a story about a global cabal that put 44 million people into poverty by driving up food prices around the world.
Speaking as law enforcement officers captured the man suspected of planting bombs around New York City, US president Barack Obama had a simple message.
Jeff Bezos has a talent for persuading Wall Street to back radically long-term investments. He’ll certainly need it if he ever decides to take his space company, Blue Origin, public.
Elizabeth Warren hasn’t left the financial crisis behind—she wants the FBI to hand over the records of its investigations into criminal behavior at Wall Street banks before the crash.
You’ve heard the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Each man grabs a handful of the giant beast in an effort to learn its true nature, but none has the perspective to garner the whole picture.
Jeff Bezos said today that his space company Blue Origin is designing an enormous rocket capable of flying cargo and humans into space by 2020. It’s the next step, he hinted, in plans to take humans back to the moon.
Another day, another female public servant’s integrity impugned by Donald Trump.
Sophisticated satellites cost hundreds of millions of dollars and are assembled in clean rooms by technicians in full bodysuits. And then, to fly them into space, we strap them onto enormous rockets that explode spectacularly once in every 20 takeoff attempts.
All is not well in the intricate global system that brings the world its goods after Hanjin shipping declared bankruptcy this week.
Donald Trump is always on the warpath, but his latest expensive folly—a plan to dramatically expand the world’s most powerful military—will definitely hit one target: The US economy.
If all goes according to plan, a NASA spacecraft will slip the surly bonds of Earth tonight to punch the face of an asteroid four years hence.
