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Elon Musk departs after a welcome ceremony with President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
June 13, 2026, 4:57 am
Musk becomes world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX shares soar
First day of trading sees stock price jump some 20 percent after biggest IPO in history
By AFP
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight that was later delayed, in Starbase, Texas, May 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
May 22, 2026, 10:17 am
SpaceX postpones highly anticipated Starship launch
Countdown halted after engineers unable to resolve last-minute technical issues; delay comes one day after Musk-owned company filed for IPO expected in June
By Gianrigo Marletta and Maggy DONALDSON
Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP/Matt Rourke, File)
April 1, 2026, 10:33 pm
SpaceX files for IPO, offering investors stake in Musk’s moon, Mars ambitions
Rocket and satellite company could be valued above $1.7 trillion; filing follows merger with xAI; listing may revive sluggish IPO market, draw retail and institutional investors
By Echo Wang and Manya Saini
Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, left, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (NASA via AP)
January 15, 2026, 8:45 pm
Ailing astronaut returns to Earth early in NASA’s first medical evacuation
SpaceX guides capsule to splashdown in Pacific Ocean in unexpected finish to mission that began in August and that left orbiting lab with only 1 American and 2 Russians on board
Elon Musk, left, is seen at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 30, 2025; US President Donald Trump, right, appears in Arlington, Virginia, on US Memorial Day, May 26, 2025. (Allison Robbert and Saul Loeb / AFP)
June 6, 2025, 5:02 am
Trump-Musk feud explodes with threats to cut contracts, support for impeachment
Tesla shares tumble as world’s richest man and most powerful man trade personal barbs, with Musk claiming the ‘truth will come out’ about the US president in Jeffrey Epstein case
By Nandita Bose and Andrea Shalal
A battery of Israel's Iron Dome missile defense is seen in Ashkelon, August 7, 2022. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)
May 3, 2025, 11:58 am
Trump’s budget plan includes Israel-inspired ‘Golden Dome for America’ missile shield
Proposal follows US president’s praise for the defense system, but feasibility of implementation is unclear; report says project could be spearheaded by Musk
By Andrew Lapin
This handout picture provided by NASA shows support teams work around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, on March 18, 2025. (Keegan Barber / NASA / AFP)
March 19, 2025, 9:52 am
NASA astronauts return to Earth after 9 months stranded in space
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, along with another American and a Russian, plop down into water off coast of Florida, ending saga that captured world attention and sympathy
By Issam Ahmed
Astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose inside the vestibule between the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP)
March 18, 2025, 6:27 pm
Stuck NASA astronauts finally head back to Earth after nine-month delay
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were trapped on the International Space Station after what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight, due to problems with Boeing Starliner capsule
By Marcia Dunn
Small cube-shaped satellites built by Israeli students. (Ronen Horesh/GPO)
March 15, 2025, 8:17 pm
9 tiny satellites built by Israeli students blast off into space
Small cube-shaped devices contain scientific and communications instruments, will spend some three years in a 500-kilometer orbit
By ToI Staff
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump listens as Elon Musk speaks during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show, October 5, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
December 18, 2024, 2:44 pm
Israel concerned ‘wild card’ Musk could share sensitive data with others – report
New York Times says Musk and SpaceX are under review for federal security compliance failures; US Air Force recently denied security clearance to the billionaire
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024, during the Starship Flight 5 test. (SERGIO FLORES / AFP)
October 13, 2024, 6:42 pm
In milestone achievement, SpaceX ‘catches’ megarocket booster after test flight
Elon Musk hails success as ‘science fiction without the fiction part,’ after firm’s years of chasing rapid reusability; NASA seeks to use altered Starship for manned Moon landing
By Agencies
This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, Sept. 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)
September 15, 2024, 2:43 pm
Jewish tech billionaire back to Earth after first private spacewalk
SpaceX’s capsule splashes down in Gulf of Mexico carrying entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, the 264th person to walk in space
By AP and ToI Staff
This image made from a SpaceX video shows the start of the first private spacewalk led by Jared Isaacman, September 12, 2024. (SpaceX via AP)
September 13, 2024, 12:39 am
High above the Earth, Jewish tech entrepreneur performs first ever private spacewalk
‘Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, it sure looks like a perfect world,’ says Jared Isaacman after popping out of capsule to test SpaceX’s new spacesuit
By Marcia Dunn
Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, commander of the maiden Polaris Dawn voyage on the SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft, arrives at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, August 19, 2024. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
September 10, 2024, 2:46 pm
Billionaire to conduct private spacewalk with Musk’s SpaceX
Tech mogul Jared Isaacman, commanding 4-person Polaris Dawn mission, will become first non-professional astronaut to perform complex mission; won’t say how much he paid for it
By Marcia Dunn
The empty Boeing Starliner capsule sits at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Sept. 6, 2024, after undocking from the International Space Station. (Boeing via AP)
September 7, 2024, 12:36 pm
2 astronauts left behind in space as Boeing capsule deemed unsafe returns to Earth empty
After thruster failures and helium leaks, Boeing insisted extensive testing showed Starliner was safe, but NASA disagreed and booked February flight with SpaceX instead
By Marcia Dunn
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