Elon Musk By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 688 pages, $35) “To anyone I’ve ever offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was…
Like so many others, I’ve long admired Elon Musk. His ambition, his ability to execute a deal, and his knack for hijacking industries that seemed immune to disruption are undeniable. He made electric cars reasonably cool, dragged NASA into the…
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s return in a SpaceX capsule yesterday emanated symbolic meaning beyond even the substantive accomplishment of rescuing two Americans stuck in space. NASA scheduled the astronauts to spend about nine days in the heavens. Instead, they…
Last Friday I saw something on television I’d seen many times before, but with a major twist. A giant sleek white rocket ship blasted off toward space bearing a crew of four. Only instead of something out of the science-fiction…
First, let me start out with a warning: these things didn’t come out as quick as I’d planned them to be, but frankly, I’m not sure what I’d cut. Hey — it’s not my fault. This could be a 25…
America must create the law that will govern the colonization of space. In his inaugural address, President Donald J. Trump said: The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory,…
I don’t spend a lot of time in my La-Z-Boy being hypnotized by daytime TV. Ok, I’ve spent some time in my La-Z-Boy being hypnotized by daytime TV — at least enough to pick up that “hypnotized” line from the Tom…
Elon Musk is many things: mega-billionaire, electric car mogul, meme poster. With such a tsunami of descriptors, it can be easy to overlook a simple question: What does Mr. X want? The answer, anticlimactic as it is, is hiding in…
Boeing’s very public series of embarrassing malfunctions have been analyzed and debated at length and explained quite comprehensively by individuals with far more expertise in the airplane business than me. But one need not know anything about aeronautics to understand…
