Tag: SpaceX

Christmas turkey rocketed toward the International Space Station on Wednesday, along with cranberry sauce, candied yams and the obligatory fruitcake.

“SpaceX & Boring Co engineers headed to Thailand tomorrow to see if we can be helpful to govt [sic],” he tweeted. “There are probably many complexities that are hard to appreciate without being there in person.”

President Donald Trump is asking the government to make it easier for private companies to get to and from space. Trump signed the space policy directive Thursday. He was joined at the White House by Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the National Space Council .

SpaceX has delayed the launch debut of its upgraded workhorse rocket. This latest version of the Falcon 9 was supposed to blast off Thursday from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, carrying Bangladesh’s first satellite, which would bring the internet to all corners of the country.