Billionaire Entrepreneur Wants to Put Man on Mars
Digital Vision/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — As the Mars rover Curiosity, a $2.5 billion robot the size of a Mini Cooper, touched down last night, one billionaire was already planning the next logical step — sending humans there. “I’m confident at this poin…
SpaceX Dragon Heading Back to Earth
NASA(HOUSTON) — The SpaceX Dragon capsule is making its way back to Earth after becoming the first commercial spacecraft to successfully dock with the International Space Station (ISS).
The Dragon is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off Lo…
Dragon Links With Space Station
Earth // Comstock/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) — The first privately funded capsule has docked at the International Space Station.The unmanned capsule brought one thousand pounds of supplies to astronauts, Donald Pettit and Andre Kuipers, who caught the ship w…
SpaceX Launch Aborted at Last Moment
Comstock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — It was to have been the dawn of a new era, private companies launching into space and on to the International Space Station.The first such launch was set for before dawn this morning, and it came tantalizingly close.But…