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The maker of the popular party game Cards Against Humanity is accusing Elon Musk’s SpaceX of trespassing on and damaging a plot of vacant land the company owns in Texas

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If Elon Musk becomes chief red-tape cutter in a second Trump administration, he is already giving a taste of what’s to come. His recent comments suggest the Federal Aviation Administration and Environmental Protection Agency would be where he directs scrutiny if he is put in charge of leading Donald Trump’s government efficiency commission, tasked with reducing government and regulations.

Elon Musk is in conflict with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which recently levied a fine of $633,009 against SpaceX for allegedly violating licensing regulations during two launches in 2023. According to the FAA, SpaceX utilized an unauthorized launch control room during the PSN SATRIA mission on June 18 and failed to conduct a required T-2 hour poll for another mission in May. FAA Chief Counsel Marc Nichols stated, “Safety drives everything we do at the FAA, including a legal responsibility for the safety oversight of companies with commercial space transportation licenses. Failure of a company to comply with the safety requirements will result in consequences."

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Friday its intent to pursue sanctions against Elon Musk.

Kamala Harris has been on the receiving end of the rumors which are going on around in social media in recent times. Snopes reported that just some hours before the US Presidential Debate, there was post by Facebook page SpaceX Fanclub claiming Vice President Kamala Harris as the ‘worst student ever’ has been said by the professors of Kamala Harris from Howard University. According to Snopes, the SpaceX Fanclub Facebook post gained around 50,000 reactions of different kind adding on to the fact that the post was shared for 28,000 times receiving 13,000 comments at the same time. Some people actually took the post pretty seriously while individuals commented that Vice President Kamala Harris had failed her first bar exam and she is actually a pretty bad student. Also Read: Monsters Season 3: Release window, cast, and all about Ed Gein

SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk's space venture, to buy two brick ranch houses she owns near the mouth of the Rio Grande. The properties are nestled amid the South Texas scrubland where SpaceX established an ever-expanding facility for the production and launch of its rockets. For decades, they've served as a home for the former social worker and a source of retirement income from beachgoers who once rented one of the houses, a short walk from the Gulf of Mexico. SpaceX's breakneck development, and fast-changing local regulations that facilitated it, disrupted her quiet retirement and halted much of the beach traffic. It also raised her property taxes, inflated by soaring values all around her as neighbors sold land to SpaceX.

SpaceX faces $633,000 in fines for alleged safety violations during two Florida launches last year

HNIs! Continuing a trend that's been trending since the first human-manufactured fire, the very wealthy continue to be beta-testers for the rest of humanity. On Sunday, billionaire Jared Isaacman became the first private non-professional astronaut to take a spacewalk. While the rest of us think we're Vasco da Gama by climbing Kilimanjaro and Machu Picchu, Isaacman decided to step out of a tin can and float around in the Big Empty in SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission. Now, that'll be a great Instagram post.

spacewalker returned to Earth with his crew on Sunday, ending a five-day trip that lifted them higher than anyone has traveled since NASA’s moonwalkers.SpaceX’s capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Florida’s Dry Tortugas in the predawn darkness, carrying tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, two SpaceX engineers and a former Air Force Thunderbird pilot.They pulled off the first private spacewalk while orbiting nearly 460 miles (740 kilometers) above Earth, higher than the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope. Their spacecraft hit a peak altitude of 875 miles (1,408 kilometers) following Tuesday’s liftoff.Isaacman became only the 264th person to perform a spacewalk since the former Soviet Union scored the first in 1965, and SpaceX’s Sarah Gillis the 265th.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Elon Musk is making things really clear: He is a Bro. He is such a Big Time Bro that this past week he tweeted an apparent offer to impregnate America’s Sweetheart, Taylor Swift, and publicly detailed a raunchy joke about male and female anatomy that he wanted to tell on national television.

Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore expressed their desire to vote in the upcoming US presidential elections in November, from the International Space Station, as their stay in the space has got extended at least till February 2025. Williams and Wilmore participated in a press conference on Friday above 250 miles above Earth from the International Space Station, where the two astronauts had been since June, reported the New York Post. The press conference came a week after the Starliner returned to earth. The pair had launched aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 5 for its first crewed flight, arriving at the space station on June 6.

United Airlines says it will offer free WiFi service on flights using the satellite-based Starlink service from Elon Musk’s SpaceX

The spacewalk was the centerpiece of Polaris Dawn, a collaboration between Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who is leading the mission. «Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world,» he said while standing in the hatch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with the planet above his head.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on the International Space Station (ISS) since June, will join a live press conference today. The event is scheduled for September 13 at 11:45 pm IST and will be streamed on NASA+, the NASA app, and the agency’s official website. «The pair will participate in a news conference aboard the International Space Station in low Earth orbit,» said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Williams and Wilmore launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5 for an intended 8-day mission, reaching the ISS on June 6. Due to issues with the Starliner, their stay was extended to several months, and NASA confirmed their return is now delayed until February 2025. They will return aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.

Fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman led the mission, which was launched on Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The four-member crew of the Dragon spacecraft adjusted to an orbit with a high of 700 kilometres. Pure oxygen started flowing into their suits on Thursday morning.

Paying passengers have lined up to rocket to space to experience a few minutes of weightlessness

Polaris Dawn mission carried out its spacewalk on Thursday with two astronauts emerging out of the capsule in Earth's orbit, tethered to the Crew Dragon spacecraft in the vacuum of space. The mission launched on Tuesday — after being delayed by more than a week due to some technical issues — with a crew of four using SpaceX's new spacesuits and a redesigned spacecraft. Billionaire Jared Isaacman, 41, was the first to exit at about 6:52 a.m. ET (1052 GMT), followed by SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, 30, becoming the first two non-government individuals to conduct such an excursion in space.

A tech billionaire has performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth

A billionaire has rocketed back into orbit, aiming to perform the first private spacewalk

People like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs at times seemed to have a je ne sais quoi that allowed them to act and behave as leaders of their companies in ways that would have tripped up mere mortals. This past week, Silicon Valley put a name to it: “Founder Mode." It’s a term coined by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, an influential startup incubator in the San Francisco Bay Area.