Important Innovations Collection

   D AILY INNOVATION BRIEF                                                                                                          By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane ELON MUSK TEASES 2 NEW TESLA EVs                                                  Source:  Tesla At his annual Tesla Shareholders Meeting, CEO Elon Musk teased two more upcoming Tesla EVs Musk said the design of the vehicles and the manufacturing technologies to produce them are way beyond anything currently on the global EV market During his speech, a te...

BE-7 Lunar Lander Rocket Engine:  4th Successful Test                                           Source:  Blue Origin BE-7 Test Bezos Says BE-7 Will Land 1st Woman on the Moon Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has announced that his space company Blue Origin has completed its fourth successful test of its lunar lander rocket engine, the BE-7.  He added the BE-7 will land the first women astronaut on the Moon.  This comment is interesting because Bezos is not taken to making predictions.  Unlike SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, he is very conservative and quiet about what he wants to target, until he achieves it. NASA's Big Artemis Competition For Blue Origin, SpaceX and Dynetics, the stakes couldn't be higher.  They are competing to be NASA's partner in the Artemis mission which will take astronauts to the Moon in 2024.  It will be the first...

NASA Awards Contracts for Moon Spacecraft Source:  Blue Moon Humans Back on the Moon by 2024 NASA just awarded contracts to three companies to build spacecraft capable of landing astronauts on the Moon.  Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, SpaceX founded by Tesla's Elon Musk and Dynetics, a  subsidiary of the IT company Leidos, are the winners. Is There Life in Space? The contract is a big win for Bezos and Blue Origin.  He has been urging NASA to explore the Moon's south pole where scientists have discovered water in the form of ice.  Water is the key ingredient that NASA targets in its search for life in space.  Bezos has  been pushing his Blue Moon lunar lander. He's pulled in Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman and Draper Labs as part of his Blue Moon development team.  According to Bezos, "We're not going back to the Moon to visit.  We're going back to stay."  Blue Origin re...