by Michael Belfiore | Jun 20, 2012 | Blog
Last week I was one of two keynote speakers for the 2012 Global Supply Chain Business Summit in Singapore. The other speaker was Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption, which is a riveting read. Needless to say I was in good company. I’ve posted this...
by Michael Belfiore | May 31, 2012 | Blog
That from SpaceX CEO and chief designer Elon Musk in a press conference today following the successful splashdown of the first commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon’s demo mission marks NASA’s return to...
by Michael Belfiore | May 25, 2012 | Blog
This morning the unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft berthed with the International Space Station. It was the first commercial mission to the space station, and the first American vehicle there since the Space Shuttles retired last year. SpaceX came up from propulsion...
by Michael Belfiore | May 24, 2012 | Blog
If you want to make space travel truly affordable and turn it into a mainstream business, you have to do better than the conventional single-use designs that have been a standard for decades. Reusability is a major step in that direction, but as we’ve seen with...
by Michael Belfiore | May 22, 2012 | Blog
This morning at 3:44 a.m. ET, Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, launched its Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The ship is now in orbit and on its way to dock with the International Space Station—if all goes well, on...
