时间:2025-04-26 18:28:57 来源:网络整理编辑:時尚
President Donald Trump has congratulated Elon Musk's SpaceX for the successful launch of the Falcon
President Donald Trump has congratulated Elon Musk's SpaceX for the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket.
Musk replied, "An exciting future lies ahead."
SEE ALSO:Watching SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch to space was like seeing into the futureTrump tweeted at the SpaceX and Tesla CEO on Tuesday after the launch of the Falcon Heavy (and its payload of a Tesla Roadster) from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
It would have been a much more straightforward space-related moment for Trump than the time he looked directly into an eclipse without glasses.
Tweet may have been deleted
Tweet may have been deleted
It was a moment of rather mannerly camaraderie between the two — Musk and Trump have a rather complicated relationship. Before the 2016 election, the SpaceX founder told CNBC, "[Trump] doesn't seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States."
Nonetheless, Musk was one of the many tech titans to attend a summit Trump held in Dec. 2016, alongside Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, among others.
Musk served on the president's business advisory councils, but in June 2017 announced he was quitting after Trump pulled the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.
Tweet may have been deleted
However, space exploration and interplanetary travel is obviously a priority for Musk, and Trump signed his first space policy in Dec. 2017, ordering NASA to return humans to the moon, then concentrate on Mars.
Guess who'll play a major part in this? Commercial space companies including SpaceX, already working toward Musk's ambitious Mars plans and successfully launching rockets like Tuesday's Falcon Heavy at a lower price point than other companies.
Trump and Musk's shared space ambition comes up even in Michael Wolff’s controversial 2018 memoir Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, in which he describes a meeting between the pair in New York's Trump Tower.
“Elon Musk, in Trump Tower, pitched Trump on the new administration’s joining him in his race to Mars, which Trump jumped at,” Wolff wrote. A SpaceX spokesperson reportedly told Business Insider that this conversation indeed occurred but that “it wasn’t about Elon personally getting to Mars but rather making humans multi-planetary, which is the SpaceX mission.”
Mutually beneficial politeness it is then.
TopicsSpaceXDonald TrumpElon MuskPolitics
The Weeknd teases new music in Instagram post2025-04-26 18:21
粵媒:卡納瓦羅執教能力備受詬病 鄭智或建臨時教練組2025-04-26 17:58
藥廠舊將駕車時與人爭吵直接開槍 致1死4傷後逃逸2025-04-26 17:30
皇馬前瞻 :遭遇爆冷專家 克羅斯回歸戰艦衝裏程碑2025-04-26 16:57
Despite IOC ban, Rio crowds get their political messages across2025-04-26 16:52
廣州隊不會放棄今年餘下賽事 或派預備隊出戰足協杯2025-04-26 16:51
“越南梅西”3場4球狀態火熱 國足如今需高度重視2025-04-26 16:29
“越南梅西”3場4球狀態火熱 國足如今需高度重視2025-04-26 16:24
Florida hurricane forecast remains uncertain, but trends in state's favor2025-04-26 16:10
卡帥在恒大拿到遠超能力的回報 恒大並沒有辜負他2025-04-26 15:54
This company is hiring someone just to drink all day2025-04-26 18:28
足協杯前兩輪采取賽會製 首輪比賽時間10月13日2025-04-26 17:30
國足傷員恢複31人全陣容訓練 李鐵通過熱身賽確定陣容2025-04-26 17:27
韓媒 :恒大破產可能性大 廣州隊恐重蹈江蘇蘇寧覆轍2025-04-26 17:22
Watch MTV's Video Music Awards 2016 livestream2025-04-26 17:19
卡帥在恒大拿到遠超能力的回報 恒大並沒有辜負他2025-04-26 17:15
28日賠率 :曼城客場對巴黎不敗 米蘭戰馬競分勝負2025-04-26 17:05
女兒曬貝利最新照:誰把頭發染黑了 出院時會更帥2025-04-26 16:52
Man stumbles upon his phone background in real life2025-04-26 16:25
中國網絡媒體足球精英賽2025-04-26 15:48