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  Why the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Is Such a Big Deal for Elon Musk BY  Raghu garikipati   july  3, 2021 2:08 pM EST N o one makes news like  Elon Musk  makes news. That’s what happens when you’re the founder of a rocket company, a co-founder of an electric car and solar panel company, a co-founder of PayPal and, not for nothing, have an actual movie superhero—Iron Man—based partly on you. So when Elon Musk says he’s going to launch the most powerful rocket in the world from the very same launch pad that sent the Apollo 11 astronauts to the moon, he’s going to get a little attention. That’s exactly the big event Musk is touting Tuesday. The rocket he’s preparing to launch is SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, long delayed but finally ready for liftoff. It’s currently sitting on Cape Canaveral’s historic Pad 39A, with its first launch window opening at 1:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Feb. 6, and closing at 4 p.m. When launched, Falcon Heavy will carry a cherry red Tesla...

  BY  BY  RAGHU GARIKIPATI   JULY  3, 2021 2:00 PM EST J eff Bezos’s Blue Origin filed a protest against NASA’s decision to award Elon Musk’s SpaceX a $2.9 billion award to develop a human-lander system to return astronauts to the moon. Blue Origin called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office to stay NASA’s  deal  with SpaceX and correct “errors” in the procurement process, according to the protest. Absent those problems, Blue Origin claimed that NASA would also have selected its proposal, which was submitted by a team that included Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and Draper, an engineering and avionics firm. “NASA has executed a flawed acquisition for the Human Landing System program and moved the goalposts at the last minute,” Blue Origin said Monday in a statement accompanying the challenge to NASA’s decision. “Their decision eliminates opportunities for competition, significantly narrows the supply base, and not only delay...

10 things you need to know about SpaceX 1. Who is Elon Musk and why is he building rockets? 2. What Has SpaceX Done That Other Companies Haven’t? 3. Are SpaceX Rockets Special? 4. How Close Is SpaceX To Flying A Crew? 5. Where is SpaceX’s Mission Control? 6. What Is The Dragon Spacecraft Like? 7. Is SpaceX Profitable? 8. Why Are Rockets Still So Failure Prone Despite Decades of Production? 9. Who Are Musk’s Main Competitors? 10.What Are Musk’s Ultimate Goals? Intro :: SpaceX has been putting winds on the board ever since the company founded by serial entrepreneur E lon Musk became the first privately funded group to put a payload in earth orbit in 2008 since then the company has continued to impress launching unmanned cargo vehicles to the international space station is and winning a contract from Nasa to fly astronauts as well as early as 2017. there have been setbacks most disastrously last June when a cargo rocket bound for the ISS exploded on route costing the crew much needed s...