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Elon Musk on stage before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on Sunday, October 27, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Should we give Musk control of the sun?

Troy Farah
Elon Musk is photographed at Space X in Brownsville, Texas on May 27, 2025. (Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How SpaceX rockets put planes at risk

Heather Vogell, Agnel Philip - ProPublica
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Musk wouldn't do DOGE again

Alex Galbraith
Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Musk’s moon mission divides Trump world

Sophia Tesfaye
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CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk speaks at the Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing "Cyber Rodeo" grand opening party on April 7, 2022 in Austin, Texas. ( SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Musk's lobbyist army descends on Texas

Lauren McGaughy - The Texas Tribune
President Trump and Elon Musk during happier days at a SpaceX launch. This week, another rocket exploded during testing, just one part of a brutal stretch for Musk that includes AI losses, political fallout and a fraying public image. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

Musk’s meltdown era is here

CK Smith
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Musk asks CBS to stick to "spaceships"

Alex Galbraith
Satellite hurtling through space burning up as it enters the atmosphere. (PaulFleet / Getty Images)

Falling space debris: A growing threat

Joanna Thompson
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Tesla boss Elon Musk speaks during the ground-breaking ceremony for a Tesla factory in Shanghai on January 7, 2019. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Musk to receive China war briefing: NYT

Griffin Eckstein
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore (L) and Pilot Suni Williams walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building on June 05, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How space impacts health of astronauts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk (R) arrives to the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

SpaceX ISS astronaut recovery postponed

Alex Galbraith
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (L), head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), speaks during a Cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump (R) at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Musk's clean-up job backfires on Trump

Heather Digby Parton
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CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

SpaceX Starship explodes during test

Griffin Eckstein
SpaceX, X (formerly known as Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with other delegates during day one of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on November 01, 2023 in Bletchley, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Musk calls astronaut r-word in tirade

Griffin Eckstein
Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk attend the inauguration of Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 20, 2025. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson - Pool/Getty Images) ((Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson - Pool/Getty Images))

Trump's Big Tech turnaround

Cara Michelle Smith
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a reception in celebration of Diwali at the White House on October 28, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Imagesz)

Biden takes on Musk, Zuck in farewell

Alex Galbraith
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Mark Zuckerberg is seen in attendance during the UFC 298 event at Honda Center on February 17, 2024 in Anaheim, California. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

Tech billionaires get inauguration seats

Griffin Eckstein
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 24, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Bannon bashes Musk as "truly evil"

Alex Galbraith
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Europa Clipper spacecraft aboard launches from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on October 14, 2024. The spacecraft Clipper will soon launch for Jupiter's moon Europa, one of dozens of moons orbiting the Solar System's biggest planet and the nearest spot in our celestial neighborhood that could offer a perch for life. It should reach orbit around Jupiter and Europa in 2031, where it will begin a detailed study of the moon scientists believe is covered in frozen water, which could provide a similar habitat to Earth. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)

NASA launches spacecraft toward Jupiter

Alex Galbraith
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule sits on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Polaris Dawn Mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 28, 2024. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Rocket failure grounds SpaceX

Griffin Eckstein
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Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. (Chesnot/Getty Images)

SpaceX ruling threatens labor agency

Griffin Eckstein
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of 20 Starlink internet satellites into space soars across the sky after sunset above the Pacific Ocean after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 18, 2024, as seen from San Diego, California. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

SpaceX pulls off a double-header

Rae Hodge
Logo of NASA is displayed on mobile phone screen in front of Blue Origin icon on February 27, 2023. (Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Going to space? Fly at your own risk

Elizabeth Hlavinka
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

On Ukraine, Musk is Benedict Arnold

Rae Hodge
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