Launching Into Space? Not So Fast. Insurers Balk At New Coverage September 1, 2021 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn An ever-swelling amount of space debris is threatening satellites that hover around Earth, making insurers leery of offering coverage to...
SpaceX Starship Lands Upright, Then Explodes in Latest Test March 5, 2021 By Marcia Dunn CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX’s futuristic Starship looked like it aced a touchdown Wednesday, but then exploded on the...
SpaceX Starship Prototype Rocket Explodes on Landing After Test Launch February 2, 2021 By Steve Gorman A prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Boca Chica,...
Cave Explorer Dubbed ‘Pedo Guy’ Describes Hurt, Humiliation December 6, 2019 By Brian Melley LOS ANGELES — A British cave explorer who helped rescue a dozen boys and their soccer coach from a flooded...
Viewpoint: It’s Time to Regulate Outer Space September 11, 2019 By Adam Minter Last week, the European Space Agency reached out to to warn Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. that one of...
SpaceX Confirms Crew Capsule Destroyed in April Test Accident May 3, 2019 By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Nearly two weeks after a fiery explosion during a ground test of its new crew capsule,...
After Source of Explosion is Found, SpaceX Plans New Launch January 4, 2017 SpaceX plans to resume flights as early as next week after finding the cause of an explosion that destroyed a...
Musk Says Second SpaceX Accident ‘Difficult and Complex’ Failure September 14, 2016 By MARCIA DUNN SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk is calling last week’s launch pad accident the “most difficult and complex failure” in the...
Bezos’ Blue Origin Reusable Rocket Lands Safely, Challenging SpaceX November 25, 2015 By Tom Giles Jeff Bezos’s space-exploration company Blue Origin LLC achieved a key milestone: sending a rocket into space and then landing it...
Congressional Panel Questions NASA on Why it Isn’t Probing SpaceX Blast August 13, 2015 By Andrea Shalal A U.S. House panel this week asked NASA to explain why it hasn’t launched an independent review of the explosion...