Why did you delete this sick tweet, Elon Musk?
Elon Musk's SpaceX just landed a rocket on a drone ship, so what better way to take a victory lap than to invoke T-Pain? Just watch the video that Musk tweeted, and then deleted for some mysterious reason....
Yes, you are on a boat
Relive SpaceX's rocket launch and landing in GIFs
SpaceX made history today when its Falcon 9 rocket epically landed on a drone ship in the ocean. The feat was not only impressive but also felt like one big sigh of relief. SpaceX has been trying to pull...
Watching the landing felt like getting one big hug
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft enters emergency mode 75 million miles from Earth
NASA engineers have declared a mission emergency for the agency's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has somehow switched into emergency mode. NASA just found out about the anomaly a day and a half...
It's the lowest operational mode the spacecraft has
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Why did you delete this sick tweet, Elon Musk?
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Relive SpaceX's rocket launch and landing in GIFs
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I called Sweden’s new national number to talk to a random Swedish person
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BuzzFeed wins
Elon Musk says the landed SpaceX rocket could relaunch by May or June
The Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX landed today may be the first of the company's vehicle to relaunch into space, CEO Elon Musk said today at a NASA press conference. That would make it the first orbital...
First, the company will fire the engines 10 times in a row
I called Sweden’s new national number to talk to a random Swedish person
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SpaceX successfully launches its resupply mission to the space station
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BuzzFeed wins
For 30 minutes this afternoon, the world stood still to watch two BuzzFeed employees wrap rubber bands around a watermelon. It was the most ridiculous use of Facebook's new Live Video feature imaginable,...
800,000 tuned in to watch a watermelon
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story gets its first trailer
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Who needs lightsabers?
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Your new Model S could be a little nicer
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