Yusaku Maezawa has a current net worth of $2.9 billion, according to Forbes.
This was the eight in a series of tests conducted to ensure the vehicle makes a safe atmospheric entry while returning from deep-space missions.
SpaceX plans to use the same vehicle for its Mars colonization mission.
The first stage of the rocket returned back safely and landed on droneship — Of Course I Still Love You.
The stock dropped 2.8 percent to $280.74, the lowest level since late May, following a 4.2 percent decline on Tuesday after Mercedes introduced its first fully electric car in Stockholm.
Two months after 13 people were rescued from a Thai cave system, Tesla CEO Elon Musk called one of the rescuers a "child rapist."
The technology, when fully realized, could prove critical to cutting down the cost of launching satellite and cargo into space.
In 2024, the first BFRs will deliver cargo and critical infrastructure supplies to the red planet.
The walkway was installed much higher up than the one set up for space shuttle flights.
The Falcon 9 Block 5 first stage to be used in this mission last flew in May when SpaceX delivered Bangladesh's first telecom satellite to orbit.
As part of these flights, American spacecraft will take astronauts into space for the first time since the retirement of the Shuttle program in 2011.
For years, scientists have been suggesting the idea of terraforming Mars but turns out, there is not enough CO2 for the job.
Their self-propelled pod broke the previous speed-record and clocked a top speed of 290 mph on SpaceX's one-mile-long test track in California.
"The fault is mine and mine alone," Musk said in a tweet.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk found himself in hot water over the weekend after he called one of the Thai cave rescuers a pedophile in a now-deleted tweet.
The Boring Company will use Elon Musk’s Loop concept to create a public transport system that will take 12 minutes to complete the commute between O’Hare Airport and downtown Chicago.
The entire test rig was tested in the agency's vacuum chamber for about half an hour at a time.
The findings of the latest study could help NASA and ESA determine potential landing and target sites for their future Mars missions.
Elon Musk has warned artificial intelligence, if unregulated, will eventually become an existentialist threat to humanity, and his opinion has both famous supporters, like Stephen Hawking, and dissenters.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was speaking Friday evening at the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles, where he gave details about what his space exploration company Blue Origin was up to.
Last time, the first stage of this rocket was used for the U.S. Air Force’s classified Zuma mission.
Once astronauts venture beyond Earth’s magnetic field, they are at risk of being exposed to cosmic radiation 1,000 times higher than what they experience on our planet, which can lead to memory impairment.