by Michael Belfiore | Apr 22, 2011 | Blog
When the Shuttle retires in just a couple of months, NASA will be forced to bum rides off its former arch rival, the Russian Space Agency, to the tune of $63 million a seat. That’s because the ship that was to replace the Shuttle has gotten itself billions of...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 8, 2011 | Blog
With Elon Musk’s announcement this week that his company, SpaceX, is developing the world’s most powerful rocket, a little-acknowledged fact has become all the more clear: SpaceX IS the US manned space program. Yes, naysayers like Senator Shelby of Alabama...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 5, 2011 | Blog
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced the specs of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy at a press conference in Washington today. You can watch a recording of his presentation and Q&A session by linking through from the Falcon Heavy page on the SpaceX website:...
by Michael Belfiore | Mar 31, 2011 | Blog
This lucky bastard got to be the first journalist inside SpaceShipTwo, now under construction by Scaled Composites under contract with Virgin Galactic in Mojave. Play the video above to see the BBC’s Richard Scott giving a tour. What’s striking is how...
by Michael Belfiore | Mar 26, 2011 | Blog
Solar, wind, and other intermittent renewable energy sources have a major barrier to widespread adoption: the electric grid has no storage. The grid is essentially an enormous production center with no warehouse. Until that problem is solved, these clean technologies...
