SpaceX is prepping the Starship rocket for its upcoming test flight, expected to take place in early August. The rocket’s last few launches did not go smoothly, leaving SpaceX in a bit of a slump as it rushes to develop a fully reusable Starship. The company desperately needs a win ahead of its planned uncrewed […]
FAA Allows SpaceX to Drop Starship Rocket Bits on Sacred Hawaiian Island
Elon Musk’s obsession with colonizing Mars is polluting Earth. As SpaceX seeks to ramp up its launches of Starship, it’s also expanding its splashdown area where pieces of the rocket are allowed to litter the Pacific Ocean. A recent expansion threatens marine wildlife surrounding a sacred island in native Hawaiian tradition. The Federal Aviation Administration […]
Trump Tries to Bury Epstein Scandal, but Elon Musk Won’t Let Him
Elon Musk seems convinced he’s finally found Donald Trump’s Achilles’ heel, the one issue that could fracture the unshakable loyalty of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement: the infamous Epstein files and their handling by the Trump administration. For years, the unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein’s records has been a holy grail for many on […]
Elon Musk’s Space Baby Is Ignoring His Drama
It hasn’t been a great summer for Elon Musk’s empire. The billionaire has been making headlines not for rockets or robots, but for explosive political drama. After pouring nearly $290 million of his own money into the 2024 election cycle to help Donald Trump return to the White House, Musk has now formed his own […]
Elon Musk Forms a New Political Party to Challenge Trump and the Republicans
As he had previously vowed, Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially announced the formation of a new, third political party on Saturday, July 5, 2025. This dramatic move comes just hours after President Donald Trump signed his “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law, a sweeping budget measure that implements massive spending cuts and eliminates nearly all […]
Trump Tells Musk to “Head Back Home to South Africa” in Escalating Feud
The relationship between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, once a powerful alliance, now appears completely broken. In a new escalation overnight, the U.S. President and the world’s richest man traded a series of threats that have formalized their political divorce. In a fiery rant on Truth Social early Tuesday, Trump deployed one of America’s oldest […]
Trump Snubbed Jared Isaacman as NASA Chief, but the Private Astronaut Isn’t Done With Space
Although Jared Isaacman is out of the running for the position of NASA administrator, the space enthusiast is still very much interested in staying in the game. In a recent appearance, Isaacman revealed he would still like to pursue launching robotic missions to space. This weekend, Isaacman received the National Space Society’s Wernher von Braun […]
SpaceX Starship Explodes in Spectacular Fireball at Texas Test Facility
SpaceX’s upper stage prototype, designated Ship 36, exploded in southeast Texas shortly before midnight local time on June 18 during routine preparations for an upcoming test flight. SpaceX is in the midst of preparing for Starship’s next fully integrated test, known as Flight 10. The last several tests haven’t gone well, but this prototype never […]
Despite Feud, Trump Says He’ll Stick With Starlink at White House
Donald Trump and Elon Musk still are not speaking, but the breakup does not appear like it will bring an end to the free advertising that Musk got for himself in the White House. In a press conference on Monday, Trump told reporters that he is going to keep the Starlink internet connection that was […]
In the Feud Between Trump and Musk, NASA Has a Lot to Lose
In the heat of the moment, Elon Musk threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and then he took it back. In doing so, however, the rocket billionaire dragged NASA into his messy breakup with Donald Trump, with the agency’s access to orbit now at stake. Musk and Trump parted ways earlier this week, and their […]