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The race to privately-funded space took a shot to the groin this weekend when the lunar lander from Armadillo Aerospace burst into flames upon ignition. According to reports, the engine exploded but luckily no one was hurt in the accident. The company founded by video game maker John Carmack had come to the high desert [...]
I always thought Google was part of the robot conspiracy and now we have proof: The search engine giant is offering a $30 million prize to the first person to blast a robot to the moon. Heck, it only took $10 million to convince Burt Rutan to send his buddy Mike Melvill up in that [...]
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John Carmack strikes again. Everyone’s favorite billionaire video game designer and amateur rocket scientist had a successful test flight over the weekend when the lunar lander test vehicle built by Armadillo Aerospace took off and landed safetly a couple times. Very cool footage here of the little machine blasting off the pad, hovering for about [...]
Take that, Jeff Bezos.
SpaceX, the startup space transportation company funded by billionaire Elon Musk, jumped into the lead of the private space race after a nearly successful launch of its Falcon 1 rocket this week.
The two-stage, kerosene-powered rocket reached an altitude of 200 miles on Wednesday after taking off from the Kwajalein Army Range in [...]
“This is your captain speaking. If you look out the cabin windows you’ll see Jupiter coming into view. Actually, don’t rush yourselves, because we won’t reach our closest approach for another month. When we pass through perigee, we will be 1.4 million miles from the center of the gas giant and we’ll be accelerating to [...]
Here is an example of why wacky Internet billionaires are so much better than stuffy old oil barons or steel magnates.
Rumors have circulated for years that Jeff Bezos, founder and main profiteer of Amazon.com, has been sinking money into a privately-funded space program called Blue Origin, but very little news has ever been released about [...]
