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September 2009 |
Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage.   |
Inc.
December 2007
Max Chafkin |
Entrepreneur of the Year: Elon Musk Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel. Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big. |
BusinessWeek
December 12, 2005
Stan Crock |
The Final Frontier At Costco Prices SpaceX aims to cut the frills and offer bargain satellite launches. |
Fast Company
February 2005
Jennifer Reingold |
How to Innovate Faster, Cheaper, Better At Space Exploration Technologies, innovation is measured in small, incremental improvements. Here's how they do it. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2010
Rich Smith |
In Space, Everyone Can Hear You Cheer Move over Boeing, and look out Lockheed Martin: There's a new rocket scientist in town, and its name is Space Exploration Technologies. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Will Take To The Skies Again Next Week CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19. |
Fast Company
Christina Farr |
SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Is "Ready to Fire Again" The Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 11 satellites to orbit last month and returned to Earth with a vertical landing Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. |
National Defense
June 2008
Breanne Wagner |
Low-Cost Space Launch Vehicles Await Liftoff A new generation of small rockets may fulfill the Air Force's goal of creating a market for low-cost space launches. |
National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Launch Contract Dispute Pits SpaceX Against Air Force, ULA A dispute between rocket-builder SpaceX and the Air Force over launch contracts came to the fore when the company's founder, Elon Musk announced a lawsuit directed at the service. |
Entrepreneur
April 2005
Mark Henricks |
Space Cowboys High-profile entrepreneurs pursue the final frontier. |
National Defense
July 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Experimental Rockets Boost Expectations of Lower Costs The Air Force is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and NASA to develop simpler and less expensive launch vehicles. |
Wired
July 2003
Carl Hoffman |
The Right Stuff Forget cyberspace. Geeks are about to conquer outer space. And the $10 million X Prize is just the beginning. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Otis Port |
Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver |
AskMen.com
Alex Bracetti |
Elon Musk Life Lessons Life lessons every man can learn from entrepreneur Elon Musk, who created Tesla and SpaceX. |
National Defense
April 2011
Stew Magnuson |
It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Elon Musk |
Risky Business Why Mars is more important than cosmetics and why a failed launch is also a partial success |
Inc.
January 2005
David H. Freedman |
Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit. |
InternetNews
April 9, 2009
David Needle |
Tesla Motors CEO Unplugged Elon Musk said the dashboard of the next Tesla electric car will be "like a giant iPhone." |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Cost in Space NASA is encouraging U.S. companies to create vessels capable of transporting cargo on the 'final frontier.' |
AskMen.com
Tyson Lowrie |
Elon Musk AMA The South African billionaire Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, PayPal, Tesla, and all-around superhuman, hosted a reddit ask me anything session yesterday. |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
Elon Musk Had A Snarky Reply To Jeff Bezos's First Tweet Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sent his very first tweet, which announced the successful launch and landing of a New Shepard rocket built by Bezos's space company, Blue Origin. |
National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Costs, Benefits of RD-180 Rocket Engine Replacement Program Debated The U.S. national security space community was left wondering this spring whether a Russian company would continue to supply it with engines needed to launch heavy payloads on its Atlas rockets. |
Inc.
December 2007
Max Chafkin |
The Companies of Elon Musk How the Entrepreneur of the Year does business and makes waves. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
The 'New Space' Race: Handicapping the Billionaire Rocketeers Fueled by interest in space tourism, as well as NASA contracts to replace the shuttle in 2010, the private "New Space" industry is finally looking like the real thing. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year The company's New Shepard reusable capsule is designed to eventually carry tourists and science experiments to the edge of space. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Rest in...Space? Privately held SpaceX plans to offer space burials. Rule-breaking industries develop when what was thought to be the domain of the privileged becomes accessible to all. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
Elon Musk Powers Up: Inside Tesla's $5 Billion Gigafactory His electric-car manufacturer is launching a new product line: large batteries that store energy in homes and even larger batteries that do the same for utilities and businesses. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Just Came A Step Closer To Carrying Humans To Space Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway. |
National Defense
June 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Industry, Space Agencies Seek Ways To Lower Launch Costs In an age of austere federal budgets, the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office are looking to reduce the spiraling cost of placing their heaviest satellites into space. |
Entrepreneur
July 2003
David Worrell |
Second Time Around These Internet pioneers hope to prove that lightning really does strike twice. |
Popular Mechanics
January 6, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Private Space on Pace to Run NASA's Space Supply NASA contracts to private space companies represents a shift away from government-run space hardware toward rockets and spaceships designed and operated by the private sector. |
The Motley Fool
March 25, 2011
Rich Smith |
Galactic Overlords Adopt American Orphan Boeing and Lockheed Martin turn to XCOR Aerospace. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Michael Belfiore |
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Elon Musk's Slightly Dishonest, Super-Effective Management Trick The deadline is a strange beast: Projects need dependable schedules to ensure that things get done, but the mounting pressure to deliver can cripple performance. |
Fast Company
January 9, 2012
Emma Haak |
Private Spacecrafts Are Your Transportation, Your Scientists, And Your Real Estate Brokers In the absence of NASA's Space Shuttle Program, private companies are left to fill the black hole of space exploration. Now, 50 years after John Glenn orbited the Earth, some very different kinds of explorers are leading the way. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2011
Rich Smith |
Boeing Wins Race to Space NASA doles out $270 million to Boeing and other shuttle replacement contenders. |
National Defense
April 2015
Stew Magnuson |
A New Rocket Engine by 2019? Air Force Says No; Aerojet Rocketdyne Says Yes Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed hot-fire testing of a single-element main injector for the AR1 rocket engine that was completely built using additive manufacturing. |
Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
7 Expert Answers for How Big Business Will Spend Cash in Space At the first-ever Space Business Forum in New York, leading rocket scientists, military officers and even hedge-fund managers crunched the numbers to illuminate the future of the space industry. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2010
Michael Belfiore |
Human Space Flight Needn't Rely on NASA: Guest Analysis Is Obama's just-released NASA budget the "death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," as Senator Richard Shelby proclaims on his website today? Or is it in fact a new beginning for the space agency? |
Inc.
December 2008 |
2008: A Closer Look A look at a private rocket company, Michael Phelps' mom, and the marketers of the year. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2008
Rich Smith |
NASA Rejects Trojan Horse Resupply contracts for the International Space Station go to established players Orbital Sciences and SpaceX. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2010
Tim Beyers |
This Rule Breaker Is Otherworldly Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is one of five companies that will share $50 million in stimulus funds designed to create commercial space vehicles that NASA will use to ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. |
National Defense
July 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Pushes for Smaller Satellites, Faster Launches The Roadrunner satellite helps break down barriers impeding the flow of information between commanders on the ground and spacecraft, and quickly replaces assets damaged in orbit. |
Outside
November 2006
Joshua Davis |
Mr. Clean Elon Musk has the savvy and the cash to invest big. His latest venture: bringing earth-friendly power and a race-ready, zero-emissions sports car to the people. |
Wired
October 23, 2007
Vince Beiser |
Rockets R Us: Salvaging Out-of-This-World Space Junk Since 1962 Where can you go for those pricey liquid oxygen valves and titanium fuel tanks? Norton Sales, the place with the bomb canisters and missile components in the window. |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Preston Lerner |
Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets The Association of Rocket Mavericks is a group of amateur rocketeers that are the top guns of model rocketry and may be the future innovators of the aerospace industry. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Burton H. Lee |
The Investor's Guide to Space How to make profits that are out of this world |
Popular Mechanics
November 2, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Ares' Continued Technical Problems and Money Troubles: Guest Analysis There is a bigger concern; one not previously discussed publicly in a program that has had several as-yet-unresolved technical concerns in its four-year history. |
