SpaceX

SpaceX—The Future of Space Travel In the beginning there was NASA. Now that the government is trimming their budgets, private corporations are entering the space race. The leader in the private sector is Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX). This corporation started doing business in 2002 and have come a long way in the industry with the help and direction from CEO. Elon Musk (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, 2015). What makes this company unique is that they buy all of their materials and make all the parts for their rockets and landing pads in the United States. With currently $5 Billion in contracts, they have nearly 50 plus launches in their flight manifest. Their founder was a former Papal entrepreneur…

You are walking up to a massive rocket about to board. Then you’re in, ready for the launch. Your heart is pounding. You’re starting to sweat. You are getting prepared to go to space. Then you hear the countdown and you know there’s no turning back now. The countdown hits 0 and you launch up through the atmosphere. You and the other people on board are zooming towards your soon to be home, Mars. SpaceX is making progress toward making something like this possible while helping with space travel…

Challenges SpaceX has had difficulties getting to where they are today. Like any business they have a goal, and obstacles to get to their goal. Elon Musk’s SpaceX project demonstrates a solid business model. The SpaceX project has not been able to just take steps, they have had to run, jump, leap, and swim to get to where they are today. Among with their greatest challenges so far have been equipment failure, enemies, and profitability. The equipment failure that the SpaceX projects have…

heading for Mars one day. New footage of a SpaceX rocket cruising down Main Street America may be intimidating to some YouTube viewers. Simply because it is footage of a real rocket that will go to space. And not a bizarre flying saucer that is blowing up volcanoes with laser beams. The footage of the SpaceX rocket was posted by USLaunchReport. There YouTube channel has a little more than 3,500 subscribers. But it’s hard to believe that they don’t have more. Maybe if they edited in a green…

Imagine this, you are watching a rocket launch on tv where SpaceX is launching 6 people to Mars for the first time in history. You hear “10...9...8...7” from the launch control. You can't believe after all these years it's finally happening, everyone has been waiting for it to happen. “5...4...3...2...” The last second before the rocket launches “1.” In that split second you thought the future of space travel could change, but now you see the rocket explode into a fiery blaze. On september 1st,…

Did you know that their are companies trying to get people to live on the Moon or Mars right at this very moment? Such as SpaceX. SpaceX is a company that is one of the first missions for NASA and the most expensive one too. Also it is unsafe and a lot of problems with living in space, like how are you going to get back and what are you going to do when you get there? And so many more important questions. One of the problems about living or visiting Mars or the moon is the cost . And colonizing…

Have you seen the news about the recent SpaceX explosion? On September 1st, 2016, the unmanned Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida during fueling. The rocket was supposed to launch Saturday, carrying with it a satellite designed to provide internet coverage to remote villages in Africa. Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, hoped that the satellite would increase Facebook’s range. Unfortunately, his hopes have been dashed. It is not infrequent for similar things to…

When it comes to space exploration and travel, two organizations usually come to mind, Nasa and SpaceX. To most, the organizations appear as the same with similar goals and agendas. They're competing to see who can initiate space travel first. Nasa and SpaceX work together as well, so wouldn’t they both be similar? Even though Nasa and SpaceX are similar, one difference, Nasa being a government agency and SpaceX being a private organization, creates many differences. The work life and goals…

With Elon Musk’s vision for the future and SpaceX set to achieve great heights in space, anything is possible. But does that include sending out a rocket every two to three weeks? SpaceX wants to launch a rocket every two to three weeks despite last year’s launch pad explosion. With high confidence, SpaceX is looking at a tight operational schedule and aims to pick up the pace of its Falcon 9 launches. With a two to three week schedule, SpaceX would need to rely on a new launch pad at NASA’s…

In “SpaceX VS. Blue Origin” the author, Austin Carr, is writing about the rivalries between the businesses of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the aerospace firm Blue Origin. Carr discusses their contributions to spaceflight, competition between the companies to recruit best engineers and to make history, and the construction of reusable rockets. Carr concludes his article by telling his readers who he thinks is winning the modern space race. Carr does an excellent job writing about…