http://www.metafilter.com/tags/elonmusk Posts tagged with 'elonmusk' at MetaFilter. Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/75231/SpaceX%2Dfinally%2Dmakes%2Dit%2Dto%2Dorbit <a href="http://www.spacex.com/F1-004.php">SpaceX's fourth flight was successful.</a> <a href="http://www.scaled.com/">Scaled Composites'</a> X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne made the first privately funded hop into space. <a href="http://spacex.com/">SpaceX</a> just took the next big step and inserted a dummy payload into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity">orbit</a>. Next, they will launch the much larger <a href="http://spacex.com/falcon9.php">Falcon 9</a> and later test out the human-carrying <a href="http://spacex.com/dragon.php">Dragon</a>. CEO <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk">Elon Musk</a> also enjoys dabbling in <a href="https://www.paypal.com/">banking</a> and exotic <a href="http://www.teslamotors.com/">electric cars</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.75231 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:52:37 -0800 COTS dragon elonmusk falcon falcon1 falcon9 paypal private space spaceshipone spacex tesla xprize b1tr0t http://www.metafilter.com/73811/More%2Dwas%2DLost%2Dthan%2DJust%2Dthe%2DRocket Lost with yesterday's <a href="http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon/003/">third failure</a> of <a href="http://www.spacex.com/updates.php">Space Exploration Technologies'</a> <a href="http://www.wired.com/science/space/magazine/15-06/ff_space_rockets">Falcon 1 rocket</a> were the ashes of actor <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002204.html">James "Scotty" Doohan</a>, who, along with astronaut <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/cooper_obit.html">Gordon Cooper</a> and over two hundred other cremains, attempted to reach orbit not <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6671887.stm">once</a>, but <a href="http://www.trektoday.com/news/030808_02.shtml">twice</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73811 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:26:51 -0800 elonmusk rocket scotty space spacex startrek Chinese Jet Pilot