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SpaceX

FAA opens way for companies to stake claims to lunar rights

Do we have the right to reserve rights to the moon? Apparently so. At least that’s the message the U.S. government… Read More

SpaceX lands $1B investment from Google and Fidelity, fueling Seattle-based satellite venture

SpaceX just announced that it has raised a total of $1 billion from Google and Fidelity, confirming a report by The… Read More

SpaceX and Space Needle

How Elon Musk plans to get to Mars, via Seattle: What the SpaceX founder said at that private event

If Seattle needs inspiration to think big, it has arrived in the form of Elon Musk. The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO took… Read More

Report: Google in talks to invest in SpaceX, boosting Seattle-based satellite initiative

Google is close to making an investment in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, with the intent of supporting the commercial space company’s… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Amazon Echo’s Alexa joins us as our special guest

We’ve been waiting for a long time to talk with this week’s guest! Joining us on the GeekWire radio show is… Read More

Photos: SpaceX founder Elon Musk reveals new $10B ‘Space Internet’ plan at private Seattle event

Elon Musk stopped in Seattle on Friday evening, on his way to Mars. The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO slipped quietly into… Read More

Photos: SpaceX Dragon capsule delivered to Seattle Center for private event with Elon Musk

SpaceX has officially arrived in Seattle. As shown in these photos, posted to Facebook by the Cornish College of the… Read More

Watch this insane SpaceX rocket crash on Vine

SpaceX keeps on making headlines this week. Today it released footage of a Falcon 9 rocket crash-landing into a barge, which they… Read More

Elon Musk is building that hyperloop track he always wanted

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/555803747792609280 In a tweet today, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced that he will be building a hyperloop test… Read More

SpaceX’s new Seattle-area office is in Redmond; Elon Musk to visit region this week

SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said that video-game developers make for great aerospace engineers. If that’s the case, his company’s… Read More

Elon Musk: SpaceX will hire up to 1,000 people in new Seattle office

Update: SpaceX’s new Seattle-area office is in Redmond; Elon Musk to visit region this week SpaceX founder Elon Musk is… Read More

SpaceX rocket crash-lands on drone ship in ambitious recovery attempt

SpaceX was unsuccessful in its inaugural attempt to land the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket softly on a barge… Read More

Boeing chief engineer says SpaceX ‘drives us to be better’

Boeing doesn’t mind its competition — in fact, the company welcomes it. That was the message from Ted Goetz, a chief… Read More

SpaceX launching Seattle-area office, recruiting squadrons of Microsoft engineers

Space Exploration Technologies, the Elon Musk-owned company better known as SpaceX, has been heavily recruiting engineers from Microsoft and other companies… Read More

Elon Musk: ‘I thought Tesla would most likely fail’

Tesla Motors is on a roll, now manufacturing 600 of its Model S electric vehicles per week as the company’s stock… Read More

NASA chooses SpaceX for launchpad lease, passing over Bezos-backed Blue Origin

In a victory for Elon Musk and a blow to Jeff Bezos, NASA said today that it has entered negotiations… Read More

A peek inside Boeing’s new spaceship: Tablets, LED lights and minimal controls

From the outside, Boeing’s new spacecraft mimics the Apollo-era capsules from back in the day. The interior, however, is all about… Read More

Washington teen wins NASA “Why Space Matters to the Future” video contest

There’s just something about Washington teenagers and their ability to talk about space exploration creatively. The Coalition for Space Exploration… Read More

Elon Musk wants to help Boeing with its problems

Boeing has been having some major problems lately and Elon Musk is offering a helping hand. Musk, founder of SpaceX… Read More

SpaceX and Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch part ways over rocket design changes

Stratolaunch Systems, the commercial space venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has cut ties with one of its high-profile… Read More

Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch aircraft passes initial review

Paul Allen is one step closer to his childhood dreams of space. The FlightGlobal blog reports that Stratolaunch Systems has… Read More

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