Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX. Musk is chief executive officer and chief technology officer of the Hawthorne, California-based company. SpaceX develops and manufactures…
On 29 September 2017, Elon Musk announced an updated vehicle design for the Mars mission at the International Astronautical Congress. The replacement vehicle for this…
Rocks are named after the children or family members of astronauts or NASA employees. The name “Jazzy”, for example, was taken from a girl named…
When the object enters the atmosphere, various factors such as friction, pressure, and chemical interactions with the atmospheric gases cause it to heat up and…
Originally introduced by Sir Isaac Newton in Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, the concepts of absolute time and space provided a theoretical foundation that facilitated Newtonian…
In the early space age, it was realized that a coincidental alignment of the outer planets would occur in the late 1970s and enable a…
