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SpaceX Releases Cringe Elon Musk Staff Meeting Video To Prove He Wasn’t On Drugs, But His Bizarre Behavior Isn’t … – Jalopnik

Elon Musk has never been particularly good at public speaking. Hes constantly stumbling over his own words, repeating himself, and forgetting key talking points. Every time Ive seen a new Tesla unveil, Ive thought to myself that he looks like he was randomly selected from the crowd and told to give a speech on a topic he was only tangentially familiar with. More people suffer from glossophobia, a fear of public speaking, than they fear death. Maybe hes afraid. Or maybe hes tired, or hungover, or stressed. Or maybe its a consistent and ongoing propensity for drug abuse.

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A recent Wall Street Journal expos voices the concerns of executives and board members within Musks many companies, that Elons use of LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, psilocybin, marijuana, and ketamine are affecting his ability to run those companies effectively. His behavior has long been described as volatile and unstable, but SpaceX employees reportedly called out a specific 2017 all-hands meeting as the turning point, describing the meeting as nonsensical, unhinged, and cringeworthy.

In an effort to refute the claims, SpaceX tweeted the full one hour and thirteen minute meeting in full for everyone to watch. Evidently this is intended to refute a single sentence of the WSJ report; SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell ultimately stepped in and took over the meeting. While Shotwell was certainly on hand to keep the meeting at least aimed in the right direction, Musk was the driving force for the full meeting. That doesnt change the fact that hes incomprehensible and difficult to follow for the entirety of the meeting. Its a rough watch, I dont recommend it. Youve been warned.

Musk has said that he has a prescription for ketamine and weve all seen the video of him smoking (if you can call it that) weed on Joe Rogans podcast. Reports indicate that Musk occasionally hosts private parties where attendees sign nondisclosure agreements or give up their phones to enter and his drug use has been witnessed. He reportedly took acid at a party in Los Angeles in 2018, took mushrooms at a party in Mexico in 2019, and got blasted on ket at Art Basel in 2021. Steve Jurvetson, former Tesla and current SpaceX board member, says hes done drugs with Elon.

Its worth mentioning that Alex Spiro, Musks attorney, said that Elon is regularly and randomly drug tested at SpaceX and has never failed a test. But whats the chain of custody on his pee?

Look, Im not going to be the Just say no Richard Nixon war on drugs buzzkill around here and say that there are no circumstances under which drug use is okay. All Im saying is that its a little disconcerting that the richest man in the world who is singularly in control of several trillions of dollars of shareholder value and billions of tax-paid government contracts cant get his mind right. At a certain level Musk is Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Twitter, Solar City, Neuralink, etc. and those companies are Musk.

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Chinese Rival to SpaceX Pulls Off Rocket Launch at Sea – The Messenger

Chinese space startup Orienspace has declared a "complete success" after launching a rocket at sea into low-Earth orbit on Thursday.

Orienspace made the announcement on Chinese social media site WeChat that the rocket had deposited a total of three satellites in orbit using the Gravity 1 commercial launch system.

According to the company, the three-stage, 100-foot tall spacecraft sets a new record in for being the worlds largest solid launch vehicle, as well as Chinas biggest commercial space launch system.

While U.S. companies like SpaceX have landed their reusable rocket parts at sea, launching on the water is not something many companies have pursued but China bucks that trend. Orienspace co-founder Yao Song told a conference in April that launching from the sea offers several advantages, including less chance of damage from debris and lower costs, according to state media.

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Vulcan Rocket Aces Its First Launch – The New York Times

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A brand-new rocket lifted off early Monday morning from Cape Canaveral, Fla., sending multiple payloads on journeys into space.

Hours after the debut of the Vulcan rocket, a moon lander it carried built by a private company faced malfunctions that imperiled its mission. That did not diminish the launch itself, which was flawless and set up future missions of the vehicle, which was built by United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Tory Bruno, the chief executive of U.L.A., summed it up tersely in a post on the social media site X.

Launched on the open of the window. Perfectly nominal mission. Dead on bullseye orbital insertion, he wrote.

For U.L.A., the successful launch of the Vulcan Centaur rocket was crucial. Vulcan is designed to replace two older rockets, and the United States Space Force is also counting on it to launch spy satellites and other spacecraft that are important for U.S. national security.

The Vulcan is also the first of several new rockets that could chip away at the current domination of the space launch market by Elon Musks company, SpaceX. SpaceX sent nearly 100 rockets into orbit last year. Other debut orbital launches in the coming months could include the Ariane 6 rocket from Arianespace, a European company, and New Glenn from Blue Origin, the company started by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder.

Through the night, the countdown for the Vulcan rocket proceeded smoothly, and the weather cooperated.

At 2:18 a.m. Eastern time, the rockets engines ignited and lifted off from the launchpad, heading up and east over the Atlantic Ocean.

Everything looking good, Rob Gannon, the launch commentator at United Launch Alliance, said repeatedly as the Vulcan headed to space.

Yee-haw, Mr. Bruno, said after the deployment of the lunar spacecraft. I am so thrilled. I cant tell you how much.

United Launch Alliance was formed in 2006, and for nine years it was the only company certified by the United States government to send national security payloads into orbit. Until now, it has used two vehicles: the Delta IV, developed by Boeing, which will complete its final flight later this year, and the Atlas V, developed by Lockheed Martin, which is also to retire in a few years.

Seventeen Atlas V launches remain, but the rocket uses Russian-built engines, which became more politically untenable with the rise of tensions between Russia and the United States. That led U.L.A. to begin development of the Vulcan, which replaces the capabilities of both rockets at a lower cost, United Launch Alliance officials said.

Whats unique about Vulcan, and what we originally set out to do, was to provide a rocket that has all the capabilities of Atlas and Delta in one single system, said Mark Peller, the U.L.A. vice president in charge of Vulcans development. Because we do have that adjustability, its configuration can be really tailored to the specific mission.

Vulcan can be configured in a variety of ways. Its core booster stage, the main body of the rocket, is powered by two BE-4 engines manufactured by Blue Origin. The engines, which emit deep blue flames from the burning of methane fuel, will also be used on Blue Origins New Glenn rocket.

Up to six solid rocket fuel boosters can be strapped to the cores side to increase the amount of mass it can lift into orbit. Its nose cone comes in two dimensions a standard size of 51 feet in length, and a longer one, 70 feet, for larger payloads.

The launch market is more robust than it has been in decades, said Carissa Christensen, the chief executive of Bryce Tech, a consulting company in Alexandria, Va. And anticipated demand is likely to be sufficient to support multiple launch providers, including Vulcan.

U.L.A. already has a backlog of more than 70 missions to fly on Vulcan. Amazon bought 38 launches for deployment for Project Kuiper, a constellation of communications satellites that will compete with SpaceXs Starlink network to provide high-speed satellite internet.

Many of the other launches will be for the Space Force. U.L.A. and SpaceX are currently the only companies that are approved for launching national security missions. Mondays launch is the first of two demonstration missions that the Space Force is requiring to gain confidence in Vulcan before it uses the launcher for military and surveillance payloads.

The second launch is to lift Dream Chaser, an uncrewed space plane built by Sierra Space of Louisville, Colo., on a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. That could then be followed by four additional Vulcan launches this year for the Space Force.

The main payload for the first launch of Vulcan was Peregrine, Astrobotics lunar lander. Astrobotic, founded in 2007, is one of several private companies aiming to provide a delivery service to the surface of the moon. Its primary customer for this trip is NASA, which paid Astrobotic $108 million to carry five experiments. No American spacecraft has made a soft landing on the moon since 1972.

That is part of the scientific work the space agency is conducting to prepare for the return of the astronauts to the moon under the Artemis program. Unlike in the past, when NASA built and operated its own spacecraft, this time it is relying on companies such as Astrobotic to provide the transportation.

That spacecraft likely will no longer be able to attempt a moon landing. But Vulcan also lifted a secondary payload for Celestis, a company that memorializes people by sending some of their ashes or DNA into space. Two toolbox-size containers attached to the Vulcans upper stage house 268 small cylindrical capsules.

Among the people whose remains are on this final journey are Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek; his wife, Majel Barrett, who played Nurse Chapel on the original television show; and three other actors on the show: DeForest Kelley, who played the medical officer Leonard Bones McCoy; Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, the communications officer; and James Doohan, who played Montgomery Scott, the chief engineer.

One of the capsules contains samples of hair from three American presidents: George Washington, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

A final brief engine firing sent the second stage and the Celestis memorial into orbit around the sun.

While Vulcan has many payloads to launch over the next few years, its longer-term prospects are less clear. Other aerospace companies are looking to win some of the Space Force business, and Amazon could in the future shift many more of its Kuiper launches to Mr. Bezos Blue Origin.

Another factor affecting Vulcans future is that SpaceX lands and reuses its Falcon 9 boosters, which is likely to give it a sizable price advantage over U.L.A. By contrast, the whole Vulcan rocket is used just once. Blue Origin is also planning to reuse the New Glenn boosters.

U.L.A. is developing technology that could be used to recover the two engines in the booster, the most expensive part of the rocket, but that is years away.

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SpaceX’s explosive test flight achieved key milestones. But there is still a long way to go – AppleValleyNewsNow.com

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ROCKET LAUNCH SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 6-2 – Kennedy Space Center

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SpaceX's Starlink is the constellation of networked satellites aimed to provide internet services to those who are not yet connected, and to provide reliable and affordable internet across the globe. The launch window opens at 8:18 AM ET and concludes at 12:00 PM ET. The visitor complex will open at 7:30 AM for launch viewing.

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SpaceX Starship launch countdown: all of the news on its first test flight – The Verge

The first time Anthony Gomez saw one of SpaceXs Starship prototypes take flight, he watched it on a projector. He was far away from the humid Texas coast, where the actual launch was taking place. Instead, he was sitting in his house in Florida with his girlfriend.

On the wall of his home, Anthony admired the Starship rocket as it careened through the sky. All three of the Raptor engines cut off when the spaceship reached an altitude of roughly 41,000 feet, and the massive steel vessel began to plummet back to Earth, pitched over on its side, looking like a grain silo in free fall. Just before reaching the landing pad, its engines reignited, and the vehicle rapidly turned upright again as it prepared to touch down. But the spacecraft came down too fast, hitting the ground hard and bursting apart in a massive explosion. Afterward, only a charred patch of Earth remained where Starship once stood a disappointment.

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