by Michael Belfiore | Oct 4, 2016 | Blog
On October 4, 2004, commercial astronaut Brian Binnie won the Ansari XPRIZE for flying the first commercial spaceship out of the atmosphere twice within two weeks. That third spaceflight of SpaceShipOne netted $10 million for investor Paul Allen and builder Scaled...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 27, 2016 | Blog
On Tuesday in Guadalajara, Mexico, at the 67th International Aeronautical Congress, SpaceX chief Elon Musk unveiled his plans for colonizing Mars. “If we can get the cost of moving to Mars to be roughly equivalent to a median house price in the U.S., which is...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog
It was in 2007, during the DARPA Urban Challenge in the Mojave Desert, that self-driving cars first proved that they could navigate city streets with traffic to complete what may well have been the world’s slowest auto race. Speed was limited to posted limits of...
