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SpaceX Rocket Fuels Thaw in Chilly Musk-Trump Relationship
- Company uses powerful Falcon Heavy to launch Musk’s Tesla
- U.S. president calls achievement sign of ‘American ingenuity’
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Elon Musk’s rocky rapport with President Donald Trump appears to be on the mend, and it only took 5 million pounds of thrust to patch things up.
Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. pulled off a seemingly impossible feat Tuesday when it launched the world’s most powerful rocket in 45 years, then flew two of its spent boosters back to the Florida coast for a spectacular, simultaneous recovery on land. Musk then pulled off something perhaps even more surprising -- winning public praise from the White House.