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 →
Space tourism is real
Spacenews.com is running a piece which is just wrong. Not just wrong. It's down right cynical. Thus, even without adding all the difficulties of operating a reusable system, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand that there can be no business case for space tourism. Most of the people who try to... Continue Reading →
Forget Apple, SpaceX is the most important company of 2009
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 →