SpaceX ready to launch astronauts into space for the first time
In the beginning, everyone was skeptical. But Elon Musk's SpaceX defied expectations — and on Wednesday hopes to make history by ferrying two NASA astronauts into space, the first crewed flight from U.S. soil in nine long years. US President Donald Trump will be among ...
Tesla's Elon Musk says ready for arrest as he reopens California plant against local order
His move has highlighted competition for jobs and ignited a rush to woo the billionaire by states that have reopened their economies more quickly.
Tesla barely registers in Japan, the world's third-largest auto market
For all of Elon Musk’s domination of the burgeoning electric vehicle business, Tesla Inc. is struggling to get traction in Japan, a market he put on a pedestal early in the automaker’s early days. The day after taking the electric carmaker public in June 2010, ...
SpaceX announces partnership to send four tourists into deep orbit
SpaceX announced a new partnership Monday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen in history has gone, without disclosing the date or price tag. The company signed a deal with Space Adventures, which is based in Washington and has served as ...
German court delays Tesla Berlin factory preparation amid environmental challenge
Elon Musk's plan to build an electric car plant in Germany has run into legal trouble after a court said clearing a forest near Berlin for a new Tesla Inc. factory must stop immediately while it considers a challenge by environmentalists. The Berlin-Brandenburg higher administrative ...
Tesla up 20% after Panasonic posts first quarterly profit at battery business
Tesla Inc.'s stock surged 20 percent on Monday in its largest one-day gain since 2013, fueled by a quarterly profit at Panasonic's battery business with the U.S. carmaker and an investor report predicting its shares would rise more than ten-fold by 2024. Shares of Tesla ...
Japanese billionaire Maezawa pulls out of dating show that promised the moon
Japanese fashion billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has pulled out of a documentary on his search for a girlfriend to travel with him on a voyage around the moon aboard Elon Musk's SpaceX, citing "mixed feelings" about the project. This month, the 44-year-old announced he was seeking ...
Former Zozo fashion retailer Yusaku Maezawa seeks girlfriend for 2023 SpaceX voyage
Call it "The Bachelor: Lunar Edition." In the latest attention-grabbing stunt by Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, his search for a girlfriend to join him on a voyage around the moon will be the subject of a new documentary program. Maezawa, 44, who sold his ...
Tesla opens Chinese plant as era of real EV competition in the country begins
Elon Musk was apparently excited enough about Tesla Inc.'s prospects in China that he was moved to dance, just as shares of the maker of electric cars hit new highs. The chief executive officer awkwardly waltzed across a stage at Tesla's new factory outside of ...
Las Vegas people-moving tunnel may open in 2020, Elon Musk says
A tunnel in Las Vegas meant to showcase a traffic-busting alternative for overcrowded cities should be completed next year, innovative entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Twitter. The people-moving tunnel is being built by The Boring Co., one of several future-oriented enterprises founded by Musk, along ...
Boeing faces huge test with Friday's launch of Starliner to ISS
NASA's effort to resume flying American astronauts on American spacecraft — something that hasn't happened since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011 — faces a major test this weekend. Over the past decade, a lot of attention has been paid to billionaire space entrepreneurs ...
Elon Musk returns to testify in defamation trial over 'pedo guy' tweets
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk returned to court on Wednesday to resume testifying at a trial to decide whether he defamed a British diver whom the Silicon Valley billionaire called "pedo guy" on Twitter. Flanked by half a dozen men, the 48-year-old South African-born entrepreneur ...
