SpaceX’s stated goal is to make off-world travel more affordable, but Musk has deeper, more science-fiction-like ambitions, including seeding the human species on other planets. In addition to SpaceX and (of course) Tesla, he founded a company called Neuralink to “develop ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans […]
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/us-astronauts-spacewalk-to-prepare-international-space-station-for-private-space-taxis/ A pair of U.S. astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Saturday to begin rigging parking spots for two commercial space taxis. Station commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore, 52, and flight engineer Terry Virts, 47, left the station’s Quest airlock shortly before 8 a.m. EST to begin a […]
Internet giant Google and the futuristic tech firm SpaceX are rumoured to cooperate on providing free internet to the whole humanity. Google is about to invest $1 bln in Elon Musk’s private space exploration enterprise SpaceX to bring his goal of global satellite-borne wireless Internet to the world, according […]
