The TOI correspondent from Washington:Elon Musk has been brought back to earth — for now. The flaming out of SpaceX‘s Starship was not the only setback for the world’s richest man and Trump’s DOGE major domo on Thursday. Hours before the mishap, the US President clipped his wings in a MAGA power struggle, telling his…
Following DeepSeek’s achievements, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk’s net worth declined by approximately $90 billion. Elon Musk, the tech magnate and currently the richest person globally, has seen his net worth decline by approximately $90 billion after achieving a peak of $486 billion. Since becoming the world’s wealthiest person in January 2021, Musk has retained…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday weighed in on the prolonged stay of Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station (ISS), blaming President Joe Biden for their extended mission and claiming he has asked Elon Musk to facilitate their return.Trump, speaking from the Oval Office, said, “We have two astronauts…
SpaceX lost contact with its Starship rocket during a test flight on Thursday, minutes after liftoff, leaving the spacecraft’s fate uncertain. The 403-foot (123-meter) rocket blasted off from Texas shortly before sunset, marking another attempt after a previous test ended in an explosion nearly two months ago.While SpaceX successfully recovered the first-stage booster using massive…
<p>Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore flew to the International Space Station’s Boeing Starliner on June 5 last year<br></p> NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are finally preparing to return home after being stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months due to a thruster malfunction. But their journey is far from…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has warned about the propaganda that is being reportedly spread at top US universities. This comes after Canadian author and professor Gad Saad took to social media platform X (earlier Twitter) to claim that 95-99% of university educators believe Kamala Harris would have been a superior president to Donald Trump. In…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has alleged that the Biden administration deliberately delayed the return of Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station (ISS), despite his company offering a rescue mission months ago.Musk took to X to claim that the astronauts, originally set for an eight-day mission, have been stranded in…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was a key topic of discussion during US President Donald Trump‘s first cabinet meeting. At this meeting, Trump expressed his support for the billionaire and even endorsed Musk and his team at DOGE‘s proposals to reduce government spending and the federal workforce. Despite acknowledging that some members of his cabinet held…
SpaceX successfully launched its third Moon landing mission of 2025 on Wednesday (local time), carrying the Athena lander atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, known as IM-2, is led by Intuitive Machines, marking its second attempt at a lunar touchdown after last year’s IM-1 mission. The IM-2 lander is carrying a suite of scientific…
NASA is going to embark on a thrilling mission to the Moon on February 26, 2025. NASA is launching its Nova-C lander, or Athena, into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The spacecraft will take off from the Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex 39A, in Florida. This is one of the larger NASA missions,…
