Elon Musk passed out after drinking vodka in a meeting with Russians to buy rockets because he was hungover from partying in Paris, biography says

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Elon Musk, surrounded by Jared Kushner and other men in suits, drinks from a wine glass in the stands at the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar.
Elon Musk drinks from a wine glass at the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar.

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Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight took off this week. Here are the players taking civilians to space.

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Virgin Galactic flight
Virgin Galactic's second commercial flight took off this week. Space tourists can pay $450,000 for a seat on one of the company's flights.

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Ukraine got its hands on North Korean rockets that troops say are wildly unpredictable and 'do crazy things,' and they're lobbing them at the Russians

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Ukrainian soldiers repair a Leopard 2 tank
Ukrainian soldiers repair a Leopard 2 tank in Zaporizhzhya region, Ukraine, on June 21, 2023.

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Elon Musk, eat your heart out: A new spaceflight startup wants to use a wild new technology to cut the time it takes to fly to Mars in half

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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Why SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket looks unlike anything the company has ever built before

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SpaceX Super Heavy first-stage booster with the black side of its Starship second stage booster showing.
SpaceX's starship is designed to be the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built.

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