There are 8 article(s) tagged SpaceX:

• October 2021

  • Memphians compare hot wing places, react to Ole Miss vs UT and more

    Memphians shared their thoughts on the Ole Miss vs. UT game and their favorite local hot wing restaurants.

    By Jasmine McCraven October 22, 2021

• September 2021

  • SpaceX journey ends with a splashdown

    The SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean Saturday, not far from where the flight began three days earlier. The all-amateur crew included a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital physician assistant.

    By The Associated Press September 19, 2021

  • Calkins: St. Jude roars into orbit!

    At 7:02:56 Central Time Wednesday, a 29-year-old Memphian named Hayley Arceneaux rocketed Memphis and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital into space. 

    By Geoff Calkins September 17, 2021

  • SpaceX, St. Jude’s Hayley Arceneaux ready to launch

    SpaceX plans to blast into orbit Wednesday night with a billionaire, two contest winners and a St. Jude worker who survived childhood cancer. It’s the first chartered passenger flight for Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

    By The Associated Press September 15, 2021

  • Calkins: 29-year-old is about to rocket Memphis and St. Jude into space

    Hayley Arceneaux — a former St. Jude patient who now works as a physician assistant at the hospital — is poised to become the youngest person to ever orbit the Earth when Inspiration4 rockets into space Wednesday. Arceneaux says that representing St. Jude patients on the mission is “the biggest honor of my life.”

     

    By Geoff Calkins September 15, 2021

• July 2021

  • Billionaire Richard Branson reaches space in his own ship

    SpaceX’s Elon Musk, came to New Mexico to watch and congratulated Branson for a “beautiful flight.” SpaceX’s Inspiration4, a flight to inspire support for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, could blast off as early as September from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    By Susan Montoya Bryan and Marcia Dunn July 11, 2021

• February 2021

  • St. Jude joining first civilian space mission, coordinated by Musk’s SpaceX

    St. Jude will get two of the four crew positions; details will air on an ad in the first quarter of the Super Bowl.

    By Jane Roberts February 01, 2021

• June 2020

  • A good attitude comes back online

    Stranded by COVID-19 and the loss of a wireless connection while watching weather stall the SpaceX rocket launch, it's hard to find order in this first-world life.

    By Dan Conaway June 05, 2020