Oct 15
Just as Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner readied to make a heart-stopping jump from his Red Bull Stratos capsule as it hovered approximately 128,000 feet above the earth, he saluted to the ground, toward a captive online and television audience and said the following: “I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the …
May 22
The New York Times reported the successful launch of SpaceX’s unmanned rocket that will dock at the International Space Station. “Mr. Musk is trying to show the world that a determined entrepreneur can start a rocket company from scratch and, a decade later, end up doing a job that has until now been the exclusive …