14 big moments in the history of Elon Musk's SpaceX — from nearly going bankrupt in 2008 to the fiery Starship explosion

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk next to a picture of a Falcon 9 launch
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk beside a Falcon 9 launch.

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Elon Musk's prized Starship mega-rocket exploded into a fireball on its first attempt to launch into space

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fireball of smoke in the sky
Starship and its Super Heavy booster explode while tumbling through the air, in a SpaceX livestream on April 20, 2023.

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A weird flash lit up the sky over Kyiv. NASA denied it was a falling satellite, and experts still can't confirm what caused it.

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A screengrab shows a flash of light in front of an illuminated tail over the cityscape of Kyiv. The timestamp reads 2023-04-19 21:7:47
A screengrab from a video shows the huge flash of light illuminating the skies over Kyiv on Wednesday.

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How to watch today's hybrid solar eclipse — the rarest type of eclipse — even if you don't live near Australia where it's happening

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Sequence of the 2019 annular solar eclipse.
Hybrid eclipses are the most rare type of solar eclipse there is.

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Elon Musk holds the keys to the moon because SpaceX's Starship megarocket launch is crucial to NASA's return

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Elon Musk controls SpaceX and is the CEO of Twitter.
Elon Musk controls SpaceX and is the CEO of Twitter.

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See inside NASA's 3D-printed Mars habitat where 4 volunteers will live for a year. It includes a gym, PlayStation 4, and a lot of red sand.

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Lead associate professor of industrial and organizational psychology Suzanne Bell, and advanced food technology lead scientist Grace Douglas speak to members of the media during a media tour of the Mars Dune Alpha, NASA's simulated Mars habitat, being used as preparations for sending humans to the Red Planet, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, U.S. April 11, 2023.

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China could start building a moon base with lunar-soil bricks in 5 years, amid NASA fears of a moon territory dispute

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Screen shows footages of spacecraft for Chang'e-5 Mission, during an event on China’s lunar exploration program, at the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing
A screen shows footage of Chang'e-5, China's lunar sample-return mission, during an event in Beijing.

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A meteorite crashed in Maine. A museum there is offering a $25,000 prize for whoever finds it.

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A map showing where NASA believes the meteorite crashed in Maine.
NASA believes the meteorite crashed near Maine's border with Canada.

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Elon Musk's $1 million Twitter bounty

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Welcome back to another edition of 10 Things in Tech. My colleague Diamond Naga is still out, leaving me, Asia Martin, to fill in this week.

If there's one thing I enjoy sharing with people, it's my fondness for hiking and the great outdoors. We're now in the full swing of Spring where temperatures are typically comfortable and plants are blossoming for the first time this year. (Sorry to you allergy sufferers.)

New James Webb telescope photo of a galaxy cluster 6 billion light years away shows a trippy phenomenon where gravity warps spacetime

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Many small galaxies are scattered on a black background: mainly white, oval-shaped and red, spiral galaxies. To the lower right is a galaxy cluster, with a very large and bright elliptical galaxy at its center. Thin, reddish, stretched-out arcs surround it. One arc is thick and much brighter. Another red galaxy is large and warped, just next to the cluster core.
Cosmic seahorse

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