Good News Notes: “Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are the two richest people in the world. They are tech-savvy and entrepreneurs who have both disrupted legacy industries. Automotive with Tesla (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report for Musk and trade and distribution with Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report for Bezos. They have not finished transforming the world given the…
Tag: SpaceX
Tesla founder Elon Musk has spent $150 million on charity in 2021
Good News Notes: “Elon Musk is on a philanthropy spending spree. In the months immediately after briefly becoming the world’s richest person, Musk has been transforming his profile as a philanthropist, appearing seemingly every few weeks bearing gifts — in public. That represents a departure from Musk’s penchant for privacy and his relatively thin history as a…
SpaceX will take 3 space tourists in a historic mission to the ISS
Good News Notes: “SpaceX is set to send three private citizens on a flight to the International Space Station. The mission, announced last week, will be hosted by Axiom Space, which has an ultimate end goal of building the world’s first commercial space station. The first mission will send three people to the station in the…
SpaceX launches double-duty satellite and doubles down on rocket reuse
Good News Notes: “Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida came at 7:10 p.m. ET (4:10 p.m. PT) at the end of a trouble-free countdown. A little more than a half-hour after launch, the JCSAT-18/Kacific1 satellite was successfully deployed in geostationary transfer orbit.” “SpaceX has also developed procedures for recovering components of the…
Elon Musk donates $1 million to plant trees after testifying that he’s cash-poor
Good News Notes: “Elon Musk has donated $1 million worth of trees ($1 per tree) to YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, who’s currently campaigning to raise $20 million from fellow YouTube celebrities for a climate change fundraising effort.” “The fundraising program has been successful even without a Musk donation; MrBeast has raised more than $6 million. The…