{"id":16734,"date":"2024-11-18T21:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16734"},"modified":"2024-11-18T23:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T23:28:50","slug":"trump-plans-to-attend-elon-musks-spacex-launch-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=16734","title":{"rendered":"Trump Plans to Attend Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX Launch on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald J. Trump plans to attend a SpaceX launch in Texas on Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the planning, in yet another demonstration of the billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s increasing closeness to the incoming president.<\/p>\n

SpaceX will be conducting its sixth test of its Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, which it soon hopes to use to deliver more of its Starlink communications satellites into orbit and to carry NASA astronauts to the moon. Eventually, Mr. Musk wants to use Starship to take humans to Mars.<\/p>\n

The test launch is planned for 5 p.m. Eastern time<\/a>. Mr. Trump\u2019s plans could always change.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk has been a ubiquitous presence<\/a> during the presidential transition, frequently attending meetings with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago and sitting in on job interviews for his administration. He traveled with Mr. Trump to Washington, accompanying the president-elect at a meeting with House Republicans. He sat ringside<\/a> with Mr. Trump at an Ultimate Fighting Championship in New York over the weekend.<\/p>\n

SpaceX\u2019s rocket launches have become major media moments for his fans and inner circle, who trek to watch them live. And Mr. Trump has made no secret of his admiration for Mr. Musk\u2019s rocket launches. In the final stretch of Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign, he would frequently interrupt his own political messaging to marvel over SpaceX, particularly the moment when a reusable booster rocket was recaptured at the launchpad by a pair of mechanical arms. Mr. Trump, who made a habit of flitting from topic to topic, would spend a minute or two describing the rocket booster\u2019s recovery with awe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By the end of his campaign, Mr. Trump was repeating the same well-worn story at nearly every rally: that he had been on the phone with some business leader but had been so captivated by footage of the Starship test that he put the call on hold. (The length that Mr. Trump left the man hanging on the other end of the phone has varied from day to day. By his final rally of the campaign, in Grand Rapids, Mich., Mr. Trump said \u201cthat guy was holding, like, for an hour and a half.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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President-elect Donald J. Trump plans to attend a SpaceX launch in Texas on Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the planning, in yet another demonstration of the billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s increasing closeness to the incoming president.SpaceX will be conducting its sixth test of its Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, which it soon hopes to use to deliver more of its Starlink communications satellites into orbit and to carry NASA astronauts to the moon. Eventually, Mr. Musk wants to use Starship to take humans to Mars.The test launch is planned for 5 p.m. Eastern time. Mr. Trump\u2019s plans could always change.Mr. Musk has been a ubiquitous presence during the presidential transition, frequently attending meetings with Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago and sitting in on job interviews for his administration. He traveled with Mr. Trump to Washington, accompanying the president-elect at a meeting with House Republicans. He sat ringside with Mr. Trump at an Ultimate Fighting Championship in New York over the weekend.SpaceX\u2019s rocket launches have become major media moments for his fans and inner circle, who trek to watch them live. And Mr. Trump has made no secret of his admiration for Mr. Musk\u2019s rocket launches. In the final stretch of Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign, he would frequently interrupt his own political messaging to marvel over SpaceX, particularly the moment when a reusable booster rocket was recaptured at the launchpad by a pair of mechanical arms. Mr. Trump, who made a habit of flitting from topic to topic, would spend a minute or two describing the rocket booster\u2019s recovery with awe.By the end of his campaign, Mr. Trump was repeating the same well-worn story at nearly every rally: that he had been on the phone with some business leader but had been so captivated by footage of the Starship test that he put the call on hold. (The length that Mr. Trump left the man hanging on the other end of the phone has varied from day to day. By his final rally of the campaign, in Grand Rapids, Mich., Mr. Trump said \u201cthat guy was holding, like, for an hour and a half.\u201d)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16736,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16737,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions\/16737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}