Elon Musk Unveils First Look At The Falcon Heavy Rocket
SpaceX is one step closer to getting humans to Mars. CEO Elon Musk unveiled photos of the newly-assembled Falcon Heavy Rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Astronomer Phil Plait explains what the Falcon Heavy Rocket means for the modern space race. Elon Musk plans to use the 27-engine rocket to get people to Mars by 2022. According to SpaceX, the Falcon Heavy will be able to carry over 30,000 pounds of cargo to Mars.
SpaceX isn't the only player in the space industry that is making big progress this week. Blue Origin successfully launched a seventh New Shepard rocket. Plait says Jeff Bezos's company has even bigger rockets in the pipeline.
Social media platform Reddit has sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.
President Donald Trump wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be singed into law by Independence Day. And he’s pushing the slow-rolling Senate to make it happen sooner rather than later. Trump met with Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the White House early this week and has been dialing senators for one-on-one chats, using both the carrot and stick to encourage them to act. But it’s still a long road ahead for the bill. Senators want to make changes to protect Medicaid and to make sure some tax breaks become permanent. Elon Musk called the whole bill a "disgusting abomination.”
