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Gwynne Shotwell’s Email on Crew Dragon’s Successful Launch and Police Brutality

June 4, 2020
The Muskette
5 min Read

Five days before SpaceX became the first-ever private company to launch humans into orbit, George Floyd, a 45-year-old black man, was murdered at the hands of a white police officer who pressed his knee against the

A Tesla Driver in Taiwan Crashes Into an Overturned Truck While Using Autopilot

June 2, 2020
Kirsten Markley
2 min Read

A video has surfaced online of a Model 3 crashing into an overturned truck. The man driving the Model 3, who was not injured, told local news media that he was using some autopilot driver-assist features. front better

SpaceX Is a Step Closer to Space Colonization, Obtained Billion-dollar Funding for Starlink and Starship Programs

June 2, 2020
The Muskette
4 min Read

Investor confidence in SpaceX is going strong, especially because of its ambitious (and now successful) efforts to launch humans into space in its Crew Dragon aircraft. As a result, it was able to obtain over half a

DM-2 Launch Success

May 30, 2020
Toby Li
2 min Read

A decade of work with the Commercial Crew Program just culminated today. For the first time since the Space Shuttle retirement, American Astronauts lifted off from an American rocket from American soil. Today’s mission

Here’s an Auction Item You Might Be Interested In: A Piece of Grimes’ Soul

May 30, 2020
The Muskette
2 min Read

No, this is not clickbait. She really is selling a piece of her soul. Grimes has defied convention on several occasions with her music, looks, stage name, son’s name (X Æ A-Xii Musk) and more. Now, she’s doing it again

Elon Musk Receives the First Portion of his 12-part Compensation

May 30, 2020
The Muskette
3 min Read

Elon Musk received a portion of his incentive compensation for Tesla. The company filed a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 28th, according to which Musk is being given around 1.7 million

Tesla Reduces Prices By Thousands Overnight

May 28, 2020
Kirsten Markley
2 min Read

Electreck reports that Tesla has reduced prices on almost all of their models.Tesla did this in response after a decrease in demand that could be attributed to the global pandemic. Some of the models have lowered in

Rocket Thrusters On a Roadster? A Recap On the Latest Jay Leno’s Garage

May 28, 2020
Kirsten Markley
4 min Read

Elon Musk and Jay Leno meet once again in an episode of Jay Leno’s Garage, which aired on Wednesday night. For those who have or have not watched it, here is a recap on what happened. In the beginning of the episode,

Virgin Orbit’s Mission Failure: Similar to SpaceX’s Beginnings 12 Years Ago

May 28, 2020
The Muskette
3 min Read

The Virgin Group’s Virgin Orbit planned an orbital launch with its LauncherOne rocket, the very first expedition for this latest two-stage spacecraft. A Boeing 747, named Cosmic Girl, would have the rocket attached to