Kenneth Chang

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Eric Lipton |Kenneth Chang

The president could tighten federal oversight of the tech titan's businesses, even if heavy reliance by the Pentagon and NASA on them makes terminating Mr. Musk's contracts less feasible. After the relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk exploded into warfare Thursday, Mr. Trump suggested that he might eliminate the tech titan's federal contracts. "The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon's Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.

3 weeks ago | estadao.com.br | Kenneth Chang

Em 2006, uma pequena empresa pouco conhecida chamada Space Exploration Technologies Corporation — SpaceX, para abreviar — ganhou um contrato da Nasa para transportar cargas e suprimentos para a Estação Espacial Internacional. Naquele momento, a SpaceX ainda não havia lançado nada em órbita e só teria sucesso dois anos depois, com seu pequeno foguete Falcon 1. Mas, desde então, a empresa fundada por Elon Musk se tornou o eixo central de todos os voos espaciais civis e militares americanos.

3 weeks ago | clarin.com | Kenneth Chang

En 2006, una empresa pequeña y poco conocida llamada Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX, para abreviar) ganó un contrato de la NASA para transportar carga y suministros a la Estación Espacial Internacional. En ese momento, SpaceX aún no había lanzado ningún cohete a la órbita y no lo lograría hasta dos años después con su diminuto cohete Falcon 1.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Kenneth Chang

If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk's private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond. In 2006, a small, little-known company named Space Exploration Technologies Corporation - SpaceX, for short - won a NASA contract to ferry cargo and supplies to the International Space Station. At that moment, SpaceX had not yet launched anything to orbit and would not succeed until two years later with its tiny Falcon 1 rocket.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Kenneth Chang

Ispace crashed on the moon in 2023. Its second spacecraft, Resilience, aims in the hours ahead to succeed where its predecessor failed. Video posted by iSpace showed the Hakuto-R Mission 2 lander circling the moon on Wednesday. Credit Credit... iSpace A Japanese company is hoping that the second time's the charm for putting a robotic lander on the moon.