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Max Q: A SpaceX spin-out sounds great

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Starliner, the crew spacecraft developed by Boeing for NASA’s Commercial Crew program, encountered not one, but two major software flaws during its most recent demonstration mission that would’ve been very bad had they not been corrected. SpaceX launches online rocket rideshare booking tool.

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SpaceX: Over $3 Billion In Revenues On Manifest

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Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm run by technology mogul Elon Musk, disclosed today in an email to supporters that the firm has racked up over $3 billion in revenues in its launch manifest, and has been profitable since 2007. SpaceX is selling prices of a standard flight of the Falcon 9 at $54M.

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SpaceX Gets $75M From NASA

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Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the commercial rocket firm run by tech mogul Elon Musk, has scored $75M from NASA as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) effort, NASA said Monday. NASA's CCDev2 effort is aimed at accelerating the availability of U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Max Q: How to build a Starship

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Busy week for SpaceX – across funding, space tourism, and next-gen spacecraft. SpaceX plans to build Starships at a furious clip. SpaceX is serious about iteration – its strategy of building (and failing – and learning from its failures) fast is in full effect for its Starship development program.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

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On the other hand, the biggest winners will turn out to be much larger than the prices people paid for them and this will happen faster than at any time in human history. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two

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Disrupting Space: A new event from TechCrunch

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Every radical turn in technology history has its great entrepreneur, and for space that person is SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Air Force and, of course, SpaceX. . You can grab your ticket for a front-row seat to this event for the early-bird price of $349. Grab your tickets at these reduced rates before prices increase.

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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth

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Noone had gone on to take a job at SpaceX and Ellis at Blue Origin, but the two remained in touch and had an idea for building rockets quickly and cheaply — with the vision that they wanted to eventually build these rockets on Mars. “It’s always been the case that we’re developing our own metal 3D printing technology.

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