Happy birthday Elon Musk: World's richest person turns 51
Business | June 28, 2022 16:15 ISTElon Musk was born on June 28, 1971. He has a net worth of around $203 billion. This makes him the wealthiest person in the world.
Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971. He has a net worth of around $203 billion. This makes him the wealthiest person in the world.
The reports published on Friday (June 17) cited an email from Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, saying the company had terminated employees who put together and circulated the letter.
Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood stated that the government will encourage the manufacturing of satellites in the private sector for a range of applications from health care, and agriculture to urban development and property tax estimation.
The alleged victim, working as a crew member on a SpaceX corporate flight, claimed Musk touched her inappropriately and asked for an erotic massage.
Musk's company has now launched 26 people into orbit in less than two years, since it started ferrying astronauts for NASA. Eight of those 26 were space tourists.
It all started when Elon Musk took to Twitter and wrote, "Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done?"
Elon Musk, 50, is said to be dating Australian actress Natasha Bassett, 27, for some time. Musk has been divorced thrice and has moved on from his relationship with Grimes. Musk has six children from his previous relationships.
Up to 40 of the 49 small satellites launched last week have either reentered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so, the company said in an online update Tuesday night.
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“Floating in space and shining like a diamond,” noted German astronaut Matthias Maurer. “We’re all very thrilled, very excited.”
The crew launch marked SpaceX's fourth for NASA in 1-1/2 years and the company's fifth passenger flight overall.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and France's Thomas Pesquet should have been back Monday morning, but high wind in the recovery zone delayed their return.
This will be SpaceX’s fourth launch of NASA astronauts and its fifth passenger flight overall.
The four astronauts will lift off to space on October 30 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the statement added.
SpaceX’s fully automated Dragon capsule reached an unusually high altitude of 363 miles (585 kilometers) after Wednesday night’s liftoff.
It’s SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s first entry in the competition for space tourism dollars. Isaacman is the third billionaire to launch this summer, following the brief space-skimming flights by Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in July.
Early this year in February, SpaceX announced the charity-driven mission named Inspiration4, which will be commanded by tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and will have three others.
"SpaceX will try to catch largest ever flying object with robot chopsticks. Success is not guaranteed, but excitement is," Musk wrote while sharing a clip from movie 'The Karate Kid'. In the clip one can see two leading actors from the film trying to catch a fly.
The Dragon is carrying more than 4,800 pounds (2,170 kilograms) of supplies and experiments, and fresh food including avocados, lemons and even ice cream for the space station’s seven astronauts.
Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics had filed a protest with the US GAO against NASA for awarding a $2.9 billion contracts to SpaceX for landing astronauts on the Moon by 2024.
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