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Touring NASA exhibition opens in Istanbul
The NASA Space Adventure Exhibition, which has been visited by more than 4 million people in 12 countries in four years, is now open to visitors in Istanbul's Ataşehir district.
Established by HUPALUPA Expo on an area of 2,300 square meters in Metropol Istanbul Mall, the exhibition hosts more than 200 works, including life-size works that have witnessed NASA space missions.
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After Twitter poll, CEO Musk sells off $5 bln in Tesla shares
After making a promise on Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold about 4.5 million shares of the electric car maker's stock, raising over $5 billion.
The sales, disclosed in 10 regulatory filings late Wednesday, amount to about 3% of Musk's stake in the company.
About $1.1 billion will go toward paying tax obligations for stock options granted to Musk in September.
Twitter Decided Instead of Musk to Sell 10% of His Tesla Shares
Twitter users have decided that entrepreneur Elon Musk will sell 10% of his shares in Tesla. This was done through a poll published by him, in which he stated that he would take the step if Twitter approved, and would take into account the results of the poll, whatever they may be.
More than 3.5 million people voted, and almost 58% of them answered "yes".
SpaceX all-civilian orbital crew completes historic mission
Four space tourists safely ended their trailblazing trip to orbit on Sept. 18 with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast.
Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier.
The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut.
Musk's Starlink Hopes for 500,000 Users Next Year
SpaceX's satellite internet network, Starlink, should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months, said Elon Musk.
SpaceX's current goal is to beam broadband internet to most of the planet by this August.
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NASA chooses SpaceX to take humans back to Moon
NASA has selected SpaceX to land the first astronauts on the surface of the Moon since 1972, the agency said on April 16, in a huge victory for Elon Musk's company.
The contract, worth $2.9 billion, involves the prototype Starship spacecraft that is being tested at SpaceX's south Texas facility.
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Turkish engineer accuses Elon Musk of slavery in SpaceX rocket project
A Turkish engineer, who worked at American space transportation company SpaceX's first rocket project Falcon-1, accused the company owner, billionaire tycoon Elon Musk of forcing them to work as "slaves."
"We were left alone on an island. He [Elon Musk] made us work like slaves," Bülent Altan said in a book called "Lift-off," describing his early days in the company.
Elon Musk reveals ambitious plans to get humans to Mars by 2026 – Seven years before NASA
Musk said by the fourth or fifth Martian landing -operating every two years or so- he’d consider allowing his children to make the trip to the Red Planet
Elon Musk Chipped Monkey, Taught It Play Vodeogames
Entrepreneur Elon Musk reported on the successful chipping of the monkey. The words of the founder of SpaceX and Tesla are quoted by Bloomberg.
Turkey, Elon Musk’s SpaceX mull new space projects
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he and Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk have discussed potential joint space projects, recalling the two had already partnered in launching Turkey's Türksat 5A communication satellite in early January.
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