Loren Grush

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Angus Whitley |Kate Duffy |Loren Grush

A SpaceX Starship rocket stationed at Boca Chica beach, Texas, in March. Photographer: Brandon Bell/Getty Images(Bloomberg) -- A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded on a test stand in Texas, adding to a series of setbacks to Elon Musk’s space ambitions that include trips to Mars. The huge blast enveloped the craft as it stood upright on a test stand, before massive plumes of flames and smoke mushroomed into the night sky, video footage late Wednesday showed.

1 week ago | dailyitem.com | Angus Whitley |Kate Duffy |Loren Grush

A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded on a test stand in Texas, adding to a series of setbacks to Elon Musk’s space ambitions that include trips to Mars. The huge blast enveloped the craft as it stood upright on a test stand, before massive plumes of flames and smoke mushroomed into the night sky, video footage of the incident late Wednesday showed. The incident shook windows and rattled dishes, according to local media reports.

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | Angus Whitley |Kate Duffy |Loren Grush

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1 week ago | denverpost.com | Loren Grush

By Loren Grush, Bloomberg NewsNASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover has been roaming the surface of Mars for four years, drilling into the alien soil to collect dirt it places in tubes and leaves on the ground. Engineers designed Perseverance to be the first step in the agency’s exploration of the Red Planet. In the future, more robotic spacecraft would arrive to sweep up the capsules and rocket them back to Earth, where scientists could look for signs that Mars once was, or is, a world with life.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Loren Grush

Howdy Earthlings, it’s Loren Grush in Austin. The dust seems to have settled from the Trump-Musk feud heard ’round the world, but it definitely shook a lot of people in the government, especially those at the Pentagon. But first... Three things you need to know today: