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SpaceX launches Starship for the sixth time — with Trump on site to watch
SpaceX conducted the sixth flight test of its massive Starship rocket on Tuesday afternoon, and although the company did not replicate the history-making
His visit is just the latest sign of a growing intimacy between himself and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who was recently appointed to head, along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, a newly-created Department of Government Efficiency office. It’s unclear how much power the office will have (it appears to be purely advisory), but judging by Musk’s public pronouncements, it could help to usher in wide-sweeping changes to major federal government programs. Trump’s visit was also a sign of encouragement for SpaceX’s Starship program, which the company says has been hampered by exactly the type of government inefficiencies Musk is looking to slash with DOGE — specifically, the slow turnaround times for launch license approvals by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
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