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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship, the world’s largest rocket, faced its first-ever fully stacked test flight last week from the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas, leading to significant damage to the launch pad and raising concerns about the dust and debris created in the surrounding communities.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its Starship rocket to space on Thursday, which suffered a mid-flight failure a few minutes into its flight.

Following Elon Musk’s labeling of NPR as “government funded” media, critics have pointed out that SpaceX and Tesla have benefited from billions in government contracts and subsidies over the years.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has delayed the first orbital launch of its Starship rocket scheduled for today and is planning a new launch on Wednesday. The company announced the mission was scrubbed just 15 minutes before launch due to a “pressurization issue.”

The Biden administration recently changed rocket procurement rules for Phase 3 of the National Security Space Launch System — the program the United States government uses to launch payloads into space — in a way that may provide significant financial benefits to Blue Origin and its founder, Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos.

Tesla CEO, Twitter owner, and self-promoter Elon Musk has broken the world record for “worst loss of fortune,” according to Guinness World Records.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and new owner of Twitter, started 2022 as the world’s richest man but has since become the first person in history to lose $200 billion in personal wealth.

Twitter owner Eon Musk has said that after firing almost two-thirds of Twiter’s 7,500-person workforce over the past three weeks and decimating the company’s contract workforce, the company is now hiring again with an emphasis on coders. Musk didn’t comment on if he would rehire any workers impacted by layoffs if they learned to code.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and — to the chagrin of the left — the new owner of Twitter, called on independent voters to back Republicans in tomorrow’s midterm elections to contain the excesses of the Democrat party.

Twitter employees are suffering from “exhaustion” due to a combination of the drawn-out acquisition effort of SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, combined with the wider economic downturn threatening to cause headcount cuts at the company, according to an employee of the tech giant who spoke to Axios.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly on Wednesday that he is “obviously overpaying” for Twitter, but claims that he is nonetheless still “excited” about his $44 billion buyout deal, which he continues to drag his feet on closing. Meanwhile, Tesla missed analyst expectations due to high material costs and production problems at multiple factories.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is telling the U.S. government that it can no longer pay for Starlink terminals to help Ukraine’s war effort, and is asking that the Department of Defense to pick up the tab to the tune of $124 million — just to cover service through the end of 2022.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now selling perfume called “Burnt Hair,” which goes for $100 a bottle. The hypemaster extraordinaire has added “Perfume Salesman” to his social media biography.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made yet another grandiose claim that is unlikely to be true, stating that the new Tesla Cybertruck will be “waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat.” The claim met with widespread derision on social media.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has claimed that the FCC’s rejection of an $886 million Starlink subsidy is “unreasonable” and “grossly unfair,” and that it leaves millions of Americans stranded on the “wrong side of the digital divide.”

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk wrote an article for a magazine produced by the chief censorship bureau of Communist China, despite being a self-described “free speech absolutist.”

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold roughly $6.9 billion worth of Tesla stock in the past week according to recent SEC filings. The sale of 7.9 million shares of Tesla comes just months after Musk claimed “no further TSLA sales planned” on social media.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s father Errol Musk says he is not proud of Elon, adding that he has been urging him to take a weight loss product to lose pounds he’s packed on by “eating badly.” Errol also called Elon’s goofy brother Kimbal Musk his “pride and joy.”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has spent the past few months battling with Twitter in a botched attempt to acquire the company, all while his other businesses including Tesla and SpaceX are suffering setbacks.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has declared his intention to pull out of his proposed $44 billion deal to take over the far-left social network Twitter, following months of back-and-forth between Musk and the company’s board.

Elon Musk, the hype master of Twitter and a prolific social media user, has not tweeted for an entire week leaving many to wonder where the billionaire has gone. One Musk observer quipped, “Musk being off Twitter for a week is like a normal person being off Twitter for a year.”

SpaceX employees recently wrote an open letter criticizing company CEO Elon Musk’s public behavior, but the letter didn’t result in the changes they were hoping for — many were promptly fired after its publication.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he voted Republican for the first time ever on Tuesday, for GOP candidate Mayra Flores, who broke a decades-long streak of Democrat wins in a special election to represent Texas’ 34th district. Musk also teased the creation of a super PAC to back centrist candidates.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion buyout offer of Twitter, accusing the social media company of not complying with his request for data on how many fake accounts exist on the site.

Joe Biden responded to Musk by noting that Ford Motor company was investing more in the United States to produce electric vehicles with more high-paying “union jobs.”

According to Fortune’s list of the top 10 highest-paid CEOs of the Fortune 500, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk received the highest compensation in 2021 while Apple CEO Tim Cook trailed just behind. Musk’s realized compensation of $23.5 billion in 2021 dwarfs Cook’s otherwise impressive $770.5 million haul.

Elon Musk has defended himself from recent allegations of sexual harassment against a flight attendant, claiming that he does not have flight attendants on his private jet, where he stocks “only fruit & nuts.”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was recently accused by a Business Insider report of exposing himself to a SpaceX flight attendant and propositioning her for sex in 2016. Musk has vigorously denied the allegations, which he calls “wild” and “utterly untrue,” and applied the mocking label of “Elongate” to the situation.

A SpaceX flight attended has accused founder Elon Musk of exposing himself and propositioning her for sex in 2018. 

Tesla boss and green energy advocate Elon Musk’s private jet recently took a nine-minute flight of just 31 miles, a distance easily drivable in one of his own electric vehicles.

A recent Chinese embassy event focused on the future of space exploration heavily featured Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk who has dramatically increased his production of electric vehicles in the communist country.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will be joining the board of directors at Twitter. The appointment comes after the billionaire took a 9.2 percent stake in the social media company, which makes him the company’s largest shareholder.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX and the world’s wealthiest person, bought a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, after conservatives on the platform urged him to use his wealth to fix the platform’s free speech problem.

A recent article from the Wall Street Journal confirms much of the reporting in Peter Schweizer’s book Red-Handed, which outlines tech giant Elon Musk’s close relationship with China.

The SEC has reportedly launched an insider trading investigation into Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal Musk following their recent stock sales.