
Elon Musk announced on X that he will give a SpaceX share to every child in America next year, though he provided no details on how the scheme would operate for the nation's roughly 73 million children.
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There are approximately 73 million children under the age of 18 in the United States based on 2024 US Census Bureau data.
“Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” Musk, the richest man in the world, said on X.
“This will be the first of many,” he said, without providing details about how the scheme would work.
There are around 73 million children under the age of 18 in the United States, according to 2024 data from the US Census Bureau.

China has established fully self-controlled satellite internet coverage in polar regions, ending reliance on foreign technology. The milestone was achieved during the 16th Arctic expedition, connecting Arctic vessels to the Qinling research station in Antarctica.

Japanese scientists are preparing the uncrewed MMX probe mission to Mars's moons to retrieve samples, aiming for the first round trip to the Martian region and launching from Tanegashima Space Center.

A young scientific research team from the National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing of Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology has developed a spaceborne SAR multi-domain affine scale transformation imaging theory for the Land Exploration IV-01 high-orbit SAR satellite to solve the problem of satellite imaging deformation and provide technical support for disaster emergency and land and resources survey.

Ninety years ago, the Red Army's Long March passed through the snow-capped mountains and grasslands. Ninety years later, Lenghu Town in the Qaidam Basin ushered in new development. From the rise and fall of the oil industry to the launch of the construction of an astronomical observation base in 2018, it now gathers 13 national-level scientific research units and 47 telescopes, driving the development of the cultural tourism industry. It receives more than 1.6 million tourists annually. It has become a science fiction film and television shooting location and a youth science education base, reflecting the continuation of the Long March spirit in the new era.

Taiwan's self-made optical telemetry satellite "Formosa Satellite 8", the first Zeppelin satellite, showed clear resolution after launch. The National Space Center held a special screening of the "Watching Eye" documentary on the 15th, presenting Taiwan's space scientific research history and breakthrough of 84% self-made rate.
On October 14, my country’s commercial aerospace company and more than 100 university research institutes jointly built the world’s first space computing constellation—the “Star Computing” project’s 02 computing power satellites were successfully launched and completed their first networking, with a total in-orbit computing power of 50P. The plan will eventually build a global coverage network composed of 2,800 satellites to achieve coordinated space computing services between the sky and the earth.