The U.S. GAO denied a protest by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin that NASA wrongly awarded a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract solely to Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Varda Space Industries, a start-up founded less than a year ago by a pair with experience at SpaceX and Founders Fund, has raised more than $50 million.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren reignited her push for a tax on the accumulated wealth of the richest Americans by pointing at the Amazon founder.
"I come back to the idea that you never want Tesla to be another car company, because then the magic is lost," CNBC's Jim Cramer said Tuesday.
U.S. futures were under some pressure after the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq logged a fifth straight session of gains.
U.S. futures were under some pressure after the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq logged a fifth straight session of gains and another day of record closes.
Tesla said in its second-quarter earnings statement that bitcoin-related impairments of $23 million dragged down operating income.
Elon Musk's electric vehicle company beat expectations on both the top and bottom lines, and passed $1 billion in quarterly net income for the first time.
Dow futures dropped Monday, cutting losses of nearly 300 points overnight, as stocks in Hong Kong and China plunged.
Dow futures dropped modestly Monday, cutting much of the overnight losses of almost 300 points as stocks in Hong Kong and China plunged.
The S&P 500 hit a record high on Monday ahead of a busy week of earnings reports from technology's heaviest hitters.
Musk also acknowledged that Tesla is still not manufacturing its custom-designed 4680 cells for commercial use in electric cars or energy storage systems yet.
"We're only just now scratching the surface" of space exploration, Jim Bridenstine, who ran NASA during the Trump administration, said after Jeff Bezos' launch.
Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched him into spaceflight history, riding the inaugural crew launch of a New Shepard rocket.
Dow futures bounced Tuesday, one day after the 30-stock average had its worst session in eight months.
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Jeff Bezos, is preparing to launch him on the company's first passenger flight on Tuesday.
The FAA warned Elon Musk's SpaceX in a letter two months ago that the company's work on a launch tower for upcoming Starship rocket launches is yet unapproved.
Private investment in space companies hit $4.5 billion in the second quarter, according to a report by New York-based firm Space Capital.
"We put up Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom into suborbit 60 years ago, and now we've come to this," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told CNBC on Monday.
Dow futures dropped, indicating a retreat for the 30-stock average from Friday's record high clos
