by Amelie Belfiore | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog
Blue Origin and the Heart of Gold are two very similar, yet very different plans. Elon Musk’s plan, is more of an idea. It’s very ambious, and it would take years. Blue Origin is happening now. Blue Origin is trying to send six people more than 62.1371 miles (100...
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...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 14, 2016 | Blog
I’m amazed no one has done this before, and there’s only one company doing it now. Microfabrica, based in Van Nuys, California, has perfected the technique of mass producing mechanical devices using the same electrodeposition technology used to make...
by Michael Belfiore | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog
As a freelance journalist I both receive pitches and I myself pitch editors at multiple publications on a regular basis. It’s how I’ve been making a living for the last 12 years, so I know what works, from both sides of the fence. This graphic shows the elements of a...