Falcon 9

facility in El Segundo, California, called SpaceX. “Musk decided SpaceX’s first rocket would be named Falcon 1, a nod to Star Wars’ Millennium Falcon” (Vance, 2015). A few of SpaceX’s achievements include: the first privately funded, liquid-fueled rocket (Falcon 1) to reach orbit (28 September 2008), the first privately funded company to successfully launch (Falcon 9) orbit and recover a spacecraft (9 December 2010), the first private company to send a spacecraft 9Dragon) to the International Space

"When something is important enough you do it, even if the odds are not in your favor," Elon Musk (Carr). Elon Musk was born to a South African mechanical engineer, and a Canadian fashion model on June 28, 1971 in South Africa (Vance). At age ten, his parents divorced, and he made the decision to live with his father, even though they had an unstable relationship (Newton). Two years later, he created his own video game called Blastar. The young entrepreneur later sold the video game for $500 dollars

$57 million to make the Falcon 9, which uses about $200,000 worth of fuel per launch. With the Falcon 9 being reusable the cost is $200,000 vs $200 million per launch after the initial cost of building the Falcon 9 (Story of SpaceX). Saving this amount of money helps not only SpaceX, but also helps others who wish to travel to space. If anyone wanted to travel to space before it would’ve been very costly and not probable. SpaceX has created a rocket called the Falcon Heavy, which can carry large

Recently SpaceX has been having some problems with its Falcon 9 rocket. The company ran into the first problem with the rocket in 2015 when the Falcon 9 rocket exploded on its way to the International Space Station. The rocket was on contract with NASA to deliver supplies to the station this was the seventh trip of the twelve trip contract. This problem was found to be a faulty strut on the upper oxygen tank. The strut was one of hundreds that were inside the tank. The issue with the strut was that

The SpaceX scientists got ready for the latest launch, the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket was carrying cargo and supplies to the astronauts at the International Space Station. Just minutes after the rocket took off, it exploded in midair. The main goal of the SpaceX scientists was to deliver 2.5 tons of supplies, which included food, water, a new docking adapter, and virtual reality headsets for the space crew. This goal was temporarily discarded after the rocket exploded exactly 139 seconds

In his Op-Ed article in response to the Falcon 9 rocket explosion on September 1st, “We Love You SpaceX, and Hope You Reach Mars, but we Need you to Focus”, Eric Berger, the author, lists objectives that SpaceX has set for itself and its contractual partner, NASA. Berger explains that following the static fire anomaly on Thursday 9/1, SpaceX needs to shift its focus from satellite launch contracts and colonizing Mars to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities with NASA. In this article, Berger his

SpaceX has successfully landed a Falcon 9 rocket, so we can now officially call the CEO the real-life Tony Stark. Only a real world Iron Man could get into this many business ventures and actually succeed. It's Been a Long Time Coming for SpaceX and the Falcon 9 Rockets After two failed landings this year, SpaceX has finally done it. The astrological community is having a party over this successful landing. This December 21, the company launched a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, and its second stage came

Once upon a dark and snowy Friday night, a mysterious man named Rabbi Hirsch came out of the dark eeriness of his desolate and abandoned synagogue and asked a boy named Michael Devlin if he could turn on the lights for him. Michael in the book Snow in August by Pete Hamill, at first hesitated, but then he willfully did the task. This started a wonderful friendship between the two Brooklyn residents that brought out the in best each other despite their different backgrounds. However, with the relationship

In the book The Once and Future King by T.H. White, Merlyn, Archimedes and Wart are talking when the conversation of favorite birds comes about. They all discuss their favorite birds and why. When it comes to Warts turn, Wart chooses rooks as his favorite bird because the traits of the rooks remind him of himself. One of the first reasons Wart brings up for liking rooks is that, “They have got the courage to mob their enemies. I should think it takes some courage to mob a hawk, even if there is a

The Summer of The Falcon      Every popular novel must have an interesting story, suitable conflicts, and a theme. In the novel The Summer Of the Falcon, the author Jean Craighead George parallels the maturation of the main character with the teaching of a bird to fly and take commands. June becomes mature and grows form childhood to adulthood, In the end of the story, June is not a child anymore. Neither is the falcon. It has fully grown and has decided to live independently