Q&A with Jonathan Lunine on Enceladus’ prospects for life

SpaceX’s Elon Musk spoke with reporters Monday about his company’s plan to launch two space tourists on a loop around the moon in 2018.

#OTD in 1997…Cassini was launched on its billion-mile trek to Saturn

The chief technology officer of SES, operator of the world’s largest commercial geostationary satellite fleet, spoke with reporters on the eve of the launch of the company’s SES 9 communications craft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.