In an historic first, the SpaceX Dragon capsule has just been successfully snared by the International Space Station. This marks the first time a commercial craft has ever landed at the ISS. The capsule was pulled to the station by a robotic arm and will remain unopened until a routine air inspection can be performed. [...]

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It finally happened. After being scrapped at the last second the other day, the private sector finally entered the space race early this morning. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the unmanned Dragon capsule into space to meet up with the International Space Station during a 3:44 a.m. EDT launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, marking [...]

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The big day was here and it almost happened, but it didn’t. The first foray by a private company to launch a rocket into space was grounded, and the SpaceX rocket never made it off the launch pad. The launch was aborted just 0.5 seconds before liftoff. It was so close, in fact, that even [...]

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Electric car maker Tesla has unveiled its new, all-electric SUV, minivan hybrid – the Model X. The first thing you’re likely to notice about the Tesla Model X are its unique “falcon wing” rear doors. Instead of opening to the side, as regular minivan doors often do, these “falcon wing” doors open upwards instead, resembling [...]

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Tesla Motors opened its factory doors this weekend to customers who have pre-ordered the new Tesla Model S sedan. Customers were given tours of the California factory, rides in a prototype of the Tesla Model S, and a plea for support from Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, who also co-founded PayPal. “We need your help,” [...]

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SpaceX is at it again.  Space Exploration Technologies, the company that successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket last year, has unveiled plans to launch the Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket since man went to the moon. The Falcon Heavy rocket will likely be able to lift twice as much cargo into orbit as the space [...]

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The Dragon, the first commercial spacecraft of its kind designed by SpaceX, returned from a low-Earth orbit on Wednesday as it splashed into the Pacific Ocean. The SpaceX vehicle landed in the water just after 2 p.m. EST, about three hours it had taken off from the Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon 9 rocket. [...]

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is ready to usher in a new age of space flight as it sits, ready to be launched, at Cape Canaveral today. The launch window lasts from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. EDT. SpaceX is prepared to launch its 180-foot-high rocket into outer space.  If the mission goes as planned, [...]

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Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk was one of David Letterman‘s guests last week. The Tesla Motors CEO came on to promote his company’s upcoming Model S.  The four-door version of the all-electric vehicle is set to debut in 2011, and costs about half as much as $100,000 two-seat sibling. Watching Letterman, one gets the sense that [...]

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Elon Musk Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk speaks his mind, I’ll give him that. Toward the end of last year,  a New York Times column by writer Randall Stross wrote that Tesla Motors was hoping for some government funds to manufacture its vehicles, which he wrote that only the very wealthy would be able to [...]

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Actor Kevin Pollak got to know Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis while playing poker one night and, in the process, learned a thing or two Twitter. Now, he’s got over 160,000 followers. Thanks to Calacanis, Kevin Pollak now also hosts his own video show as well. The show has been on for two weeks now and already [...]

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