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“My battle with cancer really prepared me for space travel.”

37-year-old Jared Isaacman quit school at 16 to start Shift4 Payments. Now the billionaire amateur pilot will fly the first-ever all-civilian mission to space, with SpaceX.

A bone cancer survivor who’s now a physician assistant will join a billionaire on SpaceX’s first private spaceflight this fall

The DOJ is investigating Elon Musk’s SpaceX over whether the company “engages in any pattern or practice of discrimination” in its hiring, court filings say.

The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has a number of impressive accomplishments under his belt. The secret to his success “takes a lot of effort,” but can pay off significantly.

“Am I a shareholder today in Tesla? Yes I am,” investor Kevin O’Leary told CNBC Make It on Wednesday. But “if Elon Musk came into the ‘Shark Tank’ and told me to invest in his electric car company before he started it, I would say, ‘You’re crazy.'”

SpaceX’s first-ever manned space flight with two NASA astronauts on Wednesday is a major milestone for Elon Musk’s private spacecraft company and it could be another step toward Musk’s longstanding goal of colonizing Mars.

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, was born in South Africa, but always wanted to move to the U.S. And at age 17, he arrived in North America with only $2,000, a backpack and a suitcase full of books. Today, he is worth $36.8 billion.

SpaceX software team members who helped “develop and deploy software that flew” the Crew Dragon capsule used to launch NASA astronauts into orbit in May, held a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session on June 6. They answered questions about how to land a job at Elon Musk’s rocket company.

Tesla’s stock price has soared since the start of 2020, pushing CEO Elon Musk up the billionaire rankings. Here’s how one of the world’s wealthiest people makes and spends his money.

On Thursday, Elon Musk became the richest person in the world with a $185 billion net worth. But “It took an utterly insane amount of work to move the SpaceX & Tesla success probabilities above [about] zero,” Musk previously tweeted.

This year was a big one for space and next year promises more achievements

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched a rocket carrying a satellite for SiriusXM today, two days after scrubbing the original mission with just 30 seconds left in the countdown from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Two days after an explosive test flight of a prototype starship, Southern California-based SpaceX will return to something more routine with a satellite deployment mission.

The first high-altitude test flight of SpaceX’s futuristic Starship was aborted at the last second

SpaceX launched a Starship rocket about 40,000 feet into the air on Wednesday before it exploded on impact during landing.

A prototype of the two-stage rocket system that could eventually carry humans to Mars is expected to make a 50,000 foot test flight this week.