The capsule is meant to provide quick transport of cargo from space, with a rapid turnaround.

On the stand in his high-stakes lawsuit against Sam Altman, Elon Musk testified that his ventures, from SpaceX to Tesla to OpenAI, have always been about saving humanity rather than making money.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has said it wants to save humanity from the “same fate as the dinosaurs” as it starts a record-breaking $1.75tn (£1.3tn) initial public offering (IPO). In a prospectus filed with US ...