22 Jun 2026
10 milestones that helped shape SpaceX
10 Milestones That Helped Shape SpaceX Since its founding in 2002, SpaceX has grown from a small startup with ambitious goals into one of the most influential companies in the aerospace industry. Through a combination of reusable rockets, commercial partnerships, and ambitious long-term plans, the company has transformed how governments, businesses, and the public think about spaceflight. From…
22 Jun 2026
Musk's original 2001 Mars plan was almost childishly simple: land a small greenhouse on the red planet to reignite public excitement for space, the seed idea t…
In the autumn of 2001, a 30-year-old Elon Musk sat in a Moscow hotel room with rocket scientist Jim Cantrell and aerospace consultant Mike Griffin, negotiating to buy refurbished Soviet Dnepr intercontinental ballistic missiles. He wanted to bolt a small robotic greenhouse onto the nose of one, fire it to Mars, and broadcast pictures of green shoots growing in red regolith back to Earth. He…
21 Jun 2026
Tesla Semi spotted with ground truth validation equipment as launch looms
The Tesla Semi was spotted mounted with ground truth validation equipment as the company nears its looming launch. The Semi is Tesla's Class 8 all-electric truck, and has been utilized in its earlier stages by many companies like PepsiCo. and Frito-Lay, who have been using it in a pilot program.
21 Jun 2026
Elon Musk: The man trying to make space cheap
For most of human history, transportation became less expensive when vehicles were reused. Ships crossed oceans thousands of times. Aircraft carried passengers for decades. Even the family car is expected to last for years before being replaced. Yet, for much of the space age, rockets operated according to a very different logic. They were among the most sophisticated and expensive machines ever…
20 Jun 2026
SpaceX valuation hinges on uncertain AI economics, says Professor Aswath Damodaran
After Elon Musk's SpaceX completed its market debut, veteran valuation expert Aswath Damodaran has warned that the company’s soaring valuation rests heavily on uncertain assumptions around artificial intelligence (AI), even as its core businesses remain relatively niche.
20 Jun 2026
SpaceX Starfall Demo Flies Tuesday: Disk Capsule Bets on Orbital Manufacturing Scale
SpaceX is preparing to fly its first Starfall prototype on Tuesday, June 23, in a low-profile demo that could upend the economics of an entire emerging industry. The disk-shaped reentry capsule — designed to return up to 1,000 kilograms of cargo from orbit — is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral at 6:43 a.m. ET, with a window that closes at 7:43 a.m. ET. The…
20 Jun 2026
Why odds of SpaceX merger with Tesla keep climbing every time the stock shoots up
In a CNBC interview on June 12, host Morgan Brennan asked SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell whether the rocket and AI player might buy Elon Musk’s second largest holding, Tesla. She didn’t dismiss the possibility, and even suggested that it might make sense. “There’s a convergence we’re all trying to accomplish in the future,” she declared, adding that the tie-up “might make Elon’s life a…
20 Jun 2026
Meet the SpaceX insiders Elon Musk trusts to run his $1.25 trillion empire
Everyone knows Elon Musk is the genius behind the biggest stock market debut of all time. But even a genius, in the immortal words of Jim Collins, needs a thousand helpers. So who, exactly, is helping him run SpaceX?
19 Jun 2026
Elon Musk and the Glory of Liberal Democracy
Elon Musk recently became the world’s first trillionaire, and the prevalent hostility to great wealth found its largest object yet. The claims: he is too rich and too powerful for our democracy, and his wealth should be redistributed to others. But Musk’s personal wealth is not the most socially salient fact about him. He demonstrates how private wealth not only improves markets and consumer…
