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News / UK and world by Press Association April 9, 2018, 10:17 pm FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter If you have been following the extraordinary life of Elon Musk and his aerospace engineering company SpaceX, you are probably aware of his plans to build a massive rocket that could one day transport humans to the Moon and Mars. It’s called the BFR, which apparently stands for for Big F****** Rocket. Now, it appears the spaceship is more than a mere concept vehicle after Musk shared a photo that appears to be work in progress. The photo shows what Musk describes as “the main body tool” for the BFR spaceship which will be used to build the rocket’s fuselage. To illustrate its enormous size, Musk placed a Tesla sedan next to the BFR component. According to the billionaire entrepreneur, the rocket is expected to be 348 feet tall, almost twice the size of the the 229-feet Falcon Heavy rocket. In 2016, Musk … [Read more...] about Elon Musk’s ‘BFR’ is actually happening

Elon Musk said in a tweet Thursday night that his first tunnel under Los Angeles is almost complete and he expects to offer free rides to the public in a few months in a "Quest for a Fantastic Future." The tunnel is a novel underground transportation system that would whisk people to and from locations underground, below LA gridlock. In a tweet Thursday, Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, touted the tunnel and thanked supporters. "Super huge thanks to everyone that helped with this project. Strong support from public, elected officials & regulators is critical to success," he wrote. Last month, members of the LA City Council's public works committee said they wanted to approve any proposal that could help untangle the city's notorious traffic gridlock. In addition to his Tesla electric car and SpaceX rocket launch businesses, Musk has created a company to bore transportation tunnels. He envisions motorists' vehicles being lowered by elevators into tunnels and onto electric sleds … [Read more...] about Elon Musk Says First Tunnel Complete, Expects to Offer Rides to Public in Weeks

Avi Selk, The Washington Post Published 6:34 am PDT, Monday, July 16, 2018 It has been five days since a dozen boys were rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand, and five days since Elon Musk has been wandering in a Twitter labyrinth of his own making. The Silicon Valley engineer and billionaire was briefly seen in Thailand last week, hauling a miniature submarine to the mouth of the cave just before an international dive team rescued the boys without it. Since then, he has been arguing with people who accuse him of shoehorning himself into the drama and imagining hypotheticals in which rescuers had not deemed his hastily built submarine unnecessary and impractical. This has, inevitably, led Musk into public arguments people who actually participated in the rescue operation - a rhetorical war that he drastically escalated on Sunday, when he called one of the cave explorers a "pedo," prompting the explorer to consider a lawsuit. Recommended Video: Now Playing: … [Read more...] about Thai cave rescuer considers suing Elon Musk over deleted ‘pedo’ tweets

News / UK and world by Press Association September 14, 2018, 4:45 pm FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Elon Musk’s space company has signed up the first private passenger to fly around the moon. The name of the person and the timing of the flight will be announced on Monday at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Mr Musk originally suggested two paying passengers would fly around the moon this year, using a Falcon Heavy rocket and a Dragon crew capsule. At the time, he said the pair approached SpaceX about sending them on a week-long flight and paid a “significant” deposit for the trip. The new strategy is to still fly around the moon but using an even bigger SpaceX rocket still in development that has its own dedicated passenger ship – and it appears there will be only one person aboard. Given that this new BFR rocket has yet to be built, the flight presumably is a few years off. SpaceX … [Read more...] about Musk’s space company signs up passenger to fly around moon

Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Washington Post Published 6:44 pm PST, Tuesday, December 18, 2018 HAWTHORNE, Calif. - For Elon Musk's very difficult year, perhaps there's a light at the end of the tunnel. On Tuesday night in a Los Angeles suburb, the billionaire inventor and beleaguered CEO of Tesla Motors is expected to unveil his latest project: a test of a tunnel system he believes is the answer to "soul-destroying" traffic congestion. Musk is expected to open the short tunnel made by his Boring Company from a site at the headquarters of SpaceX, another Musk enterprise. The event, starting at 8 p.m. Pacific Time and live-streamed from the Boring website, is expected to be part amusement park ride and part product launch pep rally. Rarely does the opening of a new subway or train line garner so much attention, but few have Musk's particular knack at PR. Musk built anticipation for his tunnel project by teasing few details of how it works and what kind of vehicle will carry … [Read more...] about Elon Musk’s Boring Company is about to open its first tunnel