We have not yet succeeded in launching a new SpaceX rocket with a red Tesla Roadster. The game breaker is the strong wind high in the sky above Cape Canaveral's space base in Florida.
A brand new rocket has to start its first test flight on Tuesday. On board is immediately a striking cargo. No satellites, no astronauts, but a car. It is the red Tesla Roadster from the businessman Elon Musk.
The dreaded \u0026 # x27; Day Zero \u0026 # x27; no more water from the tap in the South African metropolis Cape Town is not already in April. Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson has reassured residents on Monday by saying that he expects water to run out in mid-May.
The colorful businessman Elon Musk is not averse to a good publicity stunt. He sold flamethrowers and caps, he canceled his salary for the coming years and built the largest battery in the world within a hundred days. But next week he wants to do something completely new. His own space company, SpaceX, has to shoot his own car from his own brand Tesla on Tuesday.
Clothing chain Hennes \u0026 amp; Mauritz closed its branches in South Africa early on Saturday, after demonstrators had invaded the stores and destroyed items. The reason for the protests was a fashion photo that the store chain had placed on the website that was considered offensive and racist.
The American space carrier 'Dragon' is after four weeks in space on the way back to earth. The cargo ship was successfully decoupled from the International Space Station on Saturday and is on the way back, said the American space agency NASA.
A secret spy satellite of the Americans that was launched on Sunday never landed in orbit around the earth. That's what the Pentagon says on Monday. The Ministry of Defense does not know where the device is, but it is assumed that the attempt failed.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched in the night from Sunday to Monday. The first mission of the American rocket builder in 2018 is a mysterious one.
American astronaut John W. Young, the ninth man on the moon, died at the age of 87. NASA announced his death on Saturday.
As a result of the drought in the Cape Town region, the consumption of drinking water in the South African metropolis is further limited. From January 1, 2018, a resident of Cape Town may not use more than an average of forty liters of water per day. That is halving the current permitted quantity.
Cyril Ramaphosa was chosen by his party members as the new leader of the ANC, the largest political party in South Africa. The election almost certainly means that in time he will also become the new president of the country.
Maria is tanned from category 1 hurricane to tropical storm on Tuesday. That has revealed the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The meteorologists of the American Institute expect that wind speeds will decrease even further in the next 24 to 48 hours.
Maria, currently one category 1 hurricane, can lose weight in one day and downgrade to a tropical storm, reports the American National Hurricane Center (NHC).
A ferry for the tourist trips to the South African Robben Island has been crashed on the way back from the island to Cape Town. All 64 passengers and four crew members could be rescued Friday and taken on board rescue boats or other ferries.
Harvey has not yet grown up, but the next threat to North and Central America is already on the Atlantic Ocean to the west of the Cape Verde Islands. The American National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami announced on Thursday that Irma has now grown sufficiently to become the fourth hurricane of the 2017 season.
The South African opposition DA called on parliament to dissolve and hold new elections on Wednesday. The party suffered a defeat a day earlier when a motion of suspicion against President Jacob Zuma was rejected by parliamentarians.
Jacob Zuma remains president of South Africa. He survived a motion of suspicion that Parliament voted anonymously on Tuesday.
In Portugal, the government announced three days of national mourning for the enormous disaster the country has suffered. In the meantime, the number of deaths of forest fires is already at 62. There are 150 people homeless, and 150 people evacuated, says mayor of Pedrógrão Grande Valdemar Alves.
The Spanish-Basque bullfighter Ivan Fandiño was killed yesterday when he stumbled across the cape of the French Aire-sur-l'Adour.
A fish stick, Elmo and Lord Buckethead were three of the special candidates who had voted for the British House of Commons on Thursday. Lord Buckethead appeared with a kind of tube over his head and a shining cape on stage next to Prime Minister Theresa May, who managed to retain the constituency of Maidenhead.
An experimental American spacecraft was landed in Florida after almost two years on Sunday. The unmanned Boeing X-37B spent more than 700 days in a job around the Earth, where it performed a secret mission.
SpaceX commercial space company launched a spy satellite for a US intelligence service on Monday, CNN reports. The launch from Cape Canaveral was scheduled for Sunday but had to be shifted one day due to a problem with a sensor in the lower part of the rocket.
The 21-year-old South African who is arrested for the terrible murder of his parents and brother said on Monday that not he but a masked attacker with an ax is the perpetrator. The intruder would have laughed when he suffered his victims.
Two astronauts arrived at the international space station ISS on Thursday after a flight of approximately six hours. It's about a Russian and an American.
Mastercard has developed a credit card in which a fingerprint scanner has been processed. Consumers can confirm their identity if they want to pay somewhere, just like some smartphones do.
For the first time a recycle rocket space warp. It is a Falcon 9 SpaceX's commercial business. Which has already been in space, landed safely on earth and then made ready for a new mission.
The South African anti-apartheid fighter and politician Ahmed Kathrada Tuesday at the age of 87 deceased. Reported that South African media. Kathrada was a friend and comrade of Nelson Mandela and was imprisoned with him on Robben Island.
Efforts by the EU to African countries south of the Sahara to help more domestic revenues do not come off the ground. The 1.7 billion euros that the EU between 2012 and April 2016 spent on budget support to this part of Africa was 'not effective', says the ECA Tuesday in a report.
SpaceX is the end of next year, two people flying around the moon. Has announced that the director of the private space agency Elon Musk Monday.
The Dawn spacecraft NASA has the dwarf planet Ceres carbon compounds discovered are like building blocks for life on Earth. Scientists have published Thursday in the journal Science.
