SpaceX
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Elon Musk’s bromance with Donald Trump could cost him billions
The world’s richest person has a lot riding on the outcome of the US election.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Latest
Opinion
Billionaires
‘Visionary’ Elon Musk is back in his prime, and we should be excited
An action-packed month for Musk reminded me of the old futurist Elon, the visionary who wanted to change the world.
- by William Bennett
NASA astronaut in hospital after extended stay in space
A SpaceX capsule carrying three Americans and one Russian parachuted before dawn into the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast.
- by Marcia Dunn
A launch and a catch: SpaceX advances Starship program with engineering feat
The mechanical SpaceX arms were able to catch the Starship rocket booster back at the launch pad.
- by Marcia Dunn
SpaceX ‘Freedom’ capsule to rescue Starliner crew from space station reaches orbit
The capsule carried just half the regular crew, leaving two seats open for “Suni” Williams and “Butch” Wilmore, who have been stuck on the space station for months.
- by Aaron Gregg
Explainer
Space
‘Puffy-head bird-leg syndrome’: What space travel does to the body
Weird things can happen to the body in space – not least from abrupt changes in gravity as well as weightlessness, radiation and being in close quarters. How do astronauts do it?
- by Jackson Graham
Updated
Space
‘Earth sure looks like a perfect world’: Civilians complete historic space walk
The mission was Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s latest and riskiest bid to push the boundaries of commercial spaceflight.
- by Joey Roulette
SpaceX launches billionaire on first private spacewalk mission
The Falcon 9 crew is shooting for an orbit far beyond the International Space Station — an altitude of 1400 kilometres, which surpasses the record set by NASA’s Project Gemini in 1966.
- by Marcia Dunn
Space headache: Astronauts’ plight piles pressure on Starliner program
NASA deemed the capsule’s troublesome thrusters unsafe for the return journey for two astronauts, creating the latest humiliation for Boeing at the hands of Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
- by Joey Roulette
Astronauts who went to space for a week stranded for eight months
The astronauts have been stuck at the International Space Station since the beginning of June – and will spend more months in space before returning to Earth.
- by Marcia Dunn
Exclusive
Social media
Elon Musk chases ‘overpayments’ from Australia’s sacked Twitter staff
Social media platform X says a currency conversion error resulted in former Twitter staff being overpaid their entitlements.
- by Calum Jaspan
Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/spacex-hr0