European telescope launched to hunt for clues to universe’s darkest secrets
By Marcia Dunn, AP, and published by ABC News Cape Canaveral, Fla. – A European space telescope blasted off on Saturday (July 1) on a quest to explore the mysterious and invisible realm known as the dark universe. SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1.5 million kilometres (1 […]
Read MoreSpaceX Starship, world’s biggest rocket, explodes during first flight test
By AFP and published by CNA Boca Chica, Texas – Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded during its first flight on Thursday (Apr. 20), but Elon Musk congratulated his SpaceX team on an “exciting” test of the next-generation spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond. SpaceX blew up […]
Read MoreSpaceX to get humans to Mars in 2026
Elon Musk is still confident that 2026 will be the year that his space company SpaceX lands humans on Mars, where he hopes to build a human settlement. In a wide-ranging interview with the audio-only Clubhouse app on Sunday, Musk said it will take “five and a half years” before a crewed mission of SpaceX’s Starship rocket […]
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