Whenever someone proposes to do something that has never been done before, there will always be skeptics. So when I started SpaceX, it was not surprising when people said we wouldn’t succeed. But now that we’ve successfully proven Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Dragon, there’s been a steady stream of misinformation and doubt expressed about... Continue Reading →
You've probably heard that NASA is moving on from the Shuttle program. You may have also heard that they've spent most of 2009 coming to the realization that the plans to follow up the program with a system capable of getting us to the moon and beyond is not going well. We're on track to... Continue Reading →
What do you do after you co-found a online payment site and sell it to eBay? Why you make a commercial rocket company of course. Should be easy right? Other than the fact that it's super expensive, no one has done it before, the big companies who build the existing systems don't want you to... Continue Reading →
Unless you're an employee in some capacity of the aerospace industry, you've probably completely missed last weeks flurry of activity by "inside people" over NASA's release of their budget request. The industry is full of technical jargon and more or less exists in it's own little sub culture. Subculture is fine, it promotes community. But... Continue Reading →
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