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Space Exploration Technologies Corp popularly known as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services. Its headquarters located in Hawthorne, California. Founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. Yesterday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gave an update on the design of SpaceX’s future massive rocket , the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), during an event announcing the first passenger who will fly on the vehicle—Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, a 42-year-old Japanese billionaire and founder of online fashion mall Zozotown, signed with SpaceX to fly around the moon on the company"s next generation rocket. Maezawa will attempt to be the first to return to the moon in nearly half a century, launching aboard a Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), which SpaceX is developing. BFR is the flagship for Musk"s vision of creating a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on Mars, ...

Following the scandal that has trailed Facebook in the past weeks, the social network has halted its plans to match patients" data from hospitals to their accounts on Facebook, the BBC reported. Facebook has faced criticisms since the wake of the scandal with Cambridge Analytica about the improper sharing of users" private information. This has caused a significant setback and the Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday that the social media platform had not made any meaningful revenue in ad sales since the wake of the scandal. The company had initially planned to collect information from patients in the hospital to match it with their information on the social network, but it is yet to receive any health records. Christina Farr from CBNC discovered the data sharing proposal. Two anonymous persons informed her that the social network had written proposal letters to health care centres and organisations including Stanford Medical School and the American Coll...

Space travel can change you in way you can"t even imagine . The worries of space travel travel can modify a man"s hereditary makeup, NASA says, and the progressions can wait even after an arrival to Earth. One of the effects of space travel is that DNA doesn"t come back to ordinary after a stay in space. The January finding was incorporated into a NASA declaration validating various 2017 preparatory discoveries on the impacts of room go on the human body. [caption id="attachment_10668" align="alignnone" width="2000"] US astronaut Scott Kelly gestures as his space suit is tested at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, prior to blasting off to the International Space Station (ISS), late on March 27, 2015. (Photo credit should read KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP/Getty Images) [/caption] Specialists found around 93% of astronaut Scott Kelly"s qualities come back to normal after burning through one year at the International Space Station. Be that...

Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist has passed away at 76 Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He was 76. Considered by many to be the world"s greatest living scientist, Hawking was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark "A Brief History of Time," which has sold more than 10 million copies.   With fellow physicist Roger Penrose, Hawking merged Einstein"s theory of relativity with quantum theory to suggest that space and time would begin with the Big Bang and end in black holes. Hawking also discovered that black holes were not completely black but emit radiation and would likely eventually evaporate and disappear.   "A star just went out in the cosmos," Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist,  wrote...