12 news & feature articles results for "elon musk payload"

Follow the trail from an onboard camera as Elon Musk's SpaceX launches its homemade rocket 200 miles into space.

Elon Musk, who's also chairman of electric car maker Tesla Motors, talks about why he founded SpaceX and its progress so far.

Posted by Stefanie Olsen

A small team from the University of Queensland Australia successfully launches its second rocket in five days.

The maiden voyage of SpaceX's Falcon 1 will include the ashes of 125 people for an orbital burial.
Photos: The SpaceX rocket

Posted by Jim Hu

Privately developed rocket has been launched into space and has begun orbiting Earth, a success that comes after three previous failures.

Posted by Dawn Kawamoto

A privately funded rocket suffers a launch failure, the third in as many attempts for an Internet entrepreneur who is hoping to develop private space delivery and transportation.

Posted by Steven Musil

Posted by Declan McCullagh

The space race taking shape in the private sector today is due in large part to boyhood dreams of astronauts.

Posted by CNET Staff

Paul Allen was first. Amazon's Jeff Bezos is in the wings. Why do tech luminaries want off Earth?

Posted by Jim Hu

Panelists at a conference in Pasadena, Calif., question whether there's a need to put another man on the moon.

Posted by Stefanie Olsen