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Sep 21, 2021

Elon Musk Confirms “Challenges” With Toilet on Tourist Spacecraft

Posted by in categories: business, chemistry, Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Maybe try a 100 percent recycling rate for sewage and chemical extraction.


As if going to the bathroom in microgravity wasn’t complicated enough.

It sounds as though the four space tourists on SpaceX’s historic Inspiration4 flight last week had a bit of a smelly mishap. The Waste Management System experienced an “anomaly” — that’s code of “uh oh” in space jargon — with its suction fan causing the crew to struggle with doing their business while floating hundreds of miles above the surface.

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Sep 21, 2021

Musk Says You Need To Be A Good Driver To Become FSD Beta Tester

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation

How true Eric Klien?


Elon Musk has announced that Tesla owners who want to be FSD Beta testers will have to accept being monitored and then drive safely for seven days.

Sep 21, 2021

Elon Musk said SpaceX’s first-ever civilian crew had ‘challenges’ with the toilet and promised an upgrade for the next flight

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX CEO Musk did not elaborate on what toilet “challenges” the crew of the Inspiration4 mission faced or how exactly the toilet would be upgraded.

Sep 21, 2021

SpaceX’s ‘Starlink’ To Provide Services To Mars For Starship, Confirms Elon Musk

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

Internet on Mars!!


Elon Musk’s ‘Starlink’ is currently providing services in parts of the US and Canada and has plans to enter India by the end of 2021. Tech mogul Elon Musk, via his recent tweet, revealed that his satellite broadband company ‘Starlink’ will extend its services to Mars. Musk informed about this idea while replying to a user’s tweet last week, as per reports by The Science Times. Currently, the broadband internet provider is undergoing public beta testing in parts of the US and Canada.

Starlink will strengthen Starship’s communication Musk’s idea came to light when a user asked if Starlink will be deployed between Earth and Mars to strengthen communication for Starship is SpaceX’s ambitious project that is being touted as the vehicle that will ferry cargo and crew to the red planet and back in the coming years. In response to the user’s tweet, Musk amplified the excitement with one word, “yeah”.

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Sep 20, 2021

After Inspiration4 triumph, Elon Musk hints at his actual longterm goal

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, engineering, environmental, space travel

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reiterated his support for terraforming Mars, as part of his long-term goal to make humanity into a multi-planetary species.


On Sunday, the day after SpaceX’s all-civilian mission to orbit returned to Earth, the CEO took to Twitter to suggest that he’s still got his sights set on the long-term goal of making Mars a more Earth-like world. In response to a post about Mars temperatures, which claimed the average surface temperature is around minus 63 degrees Celsius (minus 82 degrees Fahrenheit), Musk responded: “Needs a little warming up.”

The comments hint at Musk’s goal, stated multiple times over the years, that he would like to transform the planet’s atmosphere to make it more hospitable to human life. It forms part of his overall goal with SpaceX: reduce spaceflight costs, use it to establish permanent human presences elsewhere in space, and transform humanity into a multi-planetary species.

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Sep 19, 2021

Elon Musk pledges $50 million to Inspiration4 fundraiser for St. Jude, exceeding $200 million goal

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, space travel

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk helped achieve the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital fundraising goal of the Inspiration4 spaceflight, just hours after his company returned the crew from orbit.

The main goal of the Inspiration4 mission, which launched on Wednesday and splashed down on Saturday, was to raise $200 million for St. Jude.

Inspiration4 commander Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who purchased the flight from SpaceX, donated $100 million personally to St. Jude. The Inspiration4 mission had raised another $60.2 million in donations, before Musk pledged to contribute $50 million himself – pushing the campaign’s total raised to more than $210 million.

Sep 19, 2021

SpaceX’s all-civilian crew chatted with Elon Musk and shared photos of Earth from the spaceship’s glass-dome bathroom on their first full day in space

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

This glass dome is where the toilet is, crew member Jared Isaacman, who purchased the four seats for the mission, told Insider’s Morgan McFall-Johnsen in July.

SpaceX CEO Musk tweeted on Thursday that he had spoken with Isaacman, Hayley Arceneaux, Sian Proctor, and Chris Sembroski, the four people on board.

“All is well,” Musk said in his Twitter post. He didn’t mention what was discussed.

Sep 18, 2021

Tesla Owners Furious That Elon Musk Keeps Pushing Back Full Self-Driving

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation

Is Elon right Eric Klien?


It’s been nearly five years since Musk first announced the full self driving feature and very little progress has been made on it.

Sep 18, 2021

Elon Musk says Starlink internet will exit beta status next month

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet, satellites

SpaceX’s satellite internet service is apparently preparing to enter its next phase.

Sep 17, 2021

Tesla will open controversial FSD beta software to owners with a good driving record

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, transportation

Get ready.


Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will use personal driving data to determine whether owners who have paid for its controversial “Full Self-Driving” software can access the latest beta version that promises more automated driving functions.

Musk tweeted late Thursday night that the FSD Beta v10.0.1 software update, which has already been pushed out to a group of select owners, will become more widely available starting September 24.

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