Photo: CHANDAN KHANNA / Contributor (Getty Images) A SpaceX rocket booster crashed as it was landing Wednesday, causing the aerospace company to postpone a launch it had planned later in the day. The Federal Aviation Administration has since grounded all Falcon 9 rockets until an investigation into the crash is completed, Futurism reports. That throws … Read more
New Jersey’s Kingda Ka, babyPhoto: Stan Honda/AFP (Getty Images) For the most part, car enthusiasts like going fast. I mean, I know I do, but a lot of the time those speeds are frowned upon by “the law” and “other motorists” and “common sense.” Because of that, we’ve got to find our high-speed thrills elsewhere. … Read more
Air travel in the U.S. is a busy business, one that sees 45,000 flights serving 2.9 million each day, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Our frenzied skies got a little calmer early Friday morning however, as the CrowdStrike software outage impacted United, Delta and American Airlines—the three largest airlines in the U.S. Airlines Have … Read more
The second–generation Tesla Roadster is back in the news after Elon Musk announced that the car would hit 60 miles an hour in less than a second. This is nearly a full second faster than the current record-holder, which got me wondering: Is it actually possible? I crunched some numbers to get the answer: it’s … Read more
President John F. Kennedy, in June 1963, walked out to a podium at Falcon Stadium, the football stadium at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. While addressing the graduating class of cadets, he announced that the United States would embark on the challenge of constructing the world’s first supersonic commercial airliner. It was the … Read more
Elon Musk is all about leaving Earth behind and heading to Mars on one of his rockets and taking a whole bunch of people with him. He’s previously said that to make regular flights back and forth between Earth and Mars a reality, his company SpaceX would need to build about 1,000 Starships. According to … Read more
Taylor Swift was the biggest celebrity polluter in the world in 2022, and that pace is being kept up this year because of her new romance with Kanas City Cheifs tight end Travis Kelce. She has apparently tallied up over 12 journeys (and counting) in the past three months alone, according to the Daily Mail. … Read more
