Most recently, Musk joined forces with fellow Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneurs to contribute $1 billion to finance OpenAl, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company.
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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ continues ruling Box Office
The film is playing at a total of 4,134 North American locations on Friday – a record for a December opening. Forty-seven per cent of Thursday’s domestic ticket sales came from 3D tickets, Disney said.
Johnson estimates Leading Edge has produced 20 to 30 tools for Hawthorne, Calif.-based SpaceX, a 13-year-old company led by billionaire Elon Musk that aims to develop reusable rockets to drive down the costs of space travel.
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After that, all future Falcon 9 rockets will be of the upgraded version, whose main goal is to permit SpaceX to recover the first stage even when launching heavy telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbit.
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If they are built about Rey and her journey I can not see myself losing interest in this trilogy like I did the prequels. Imagine you have come to see the new Star Wars film…the lights go down… you are soooo excited… and this comes up”.
At around 8:40 p.m. EST, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket returned to the ground to an uproarious crowd, cheering the safe landing after months of unsuccessful attempts.
“It’s a revolutionary moment”, Musk said, according to NBC News, after SpaceX landed its rocket Monday night.
Musk and others have said that making a reusable rocket would reduce costs by a factor of a hundred – thereby making interplanetary travel possible. The first was to deploy the rocket’s payload – 11 ORBCOMM satellites – into low orbit, which company officials said went smoothly.
The launch is a ” giant tech demo for SpaceX, as being able to deliver on claims and come back from losses with not only nominally flight, but also improvement.
Last month, Bezos’s Blue Origin launched a rocket just past the boundary of space, and then landed it vertically in rural West Texas. That effort was thwarted when the fins meant to guide the rocket’s descent stopped working, and it crashed into the drone ship it was meant to land on. Gen. Wayne Monteith, the top commander at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, noted that the returning booster “placed the exclamation mark on 2015”.
SpaceX had tried at least twice before, and now finally succeeded in bringing a section of the 23-story tall Falcon 9 rocket back to the landing pad.
As The Associated Press reports, Brig.
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SpaceX Photo on FlickrAn illustration of SpaceX’s Red Dragon landing on Mars.Unlike SpaceX, however, Blue Origin’s rocket cannot reach orbital space, which is important for sending payloads into orbit and reaching deep-space destinations like Mars.
