With Space Exploration Technologies getting ready to send its gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket sometime this week, the company's CEO Elon Musk tried to underplay the expectations from the flight, saying that that the Dragon has only about a "60 percent or thereabouts" chance of coming back down successfully.

The successful launch of Falcon 9 rocket was a historical event for space entrepreneur Elon Musk. But he has admitted that he was worried some years ago that the project will be grounded due to lack of cash.

A new adventurous attempt could take place on Friday, as Space Pioneer Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. sets to conduct first test flight of Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and co-founder Martin Eberhard have settled their differences, putting an end to bitter legal dispute.

The dispute was over the issue: whether Elon Musk or Martin Eberhard got the right to call himself the founder of the company.