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President Donald Trump greets Wendell P. Weeks, right, Chief Executive Officer of Corning, as he host breakfast with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. On the left of is Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Tesla customers cancel Model 3 orders over CEO Elon Musk’s involvement in Trump White House: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2016, file photo, SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks during the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. Musk elaborated on his plans to colonize Mars in a Reddit session Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Refugio Ruiz, File)

SpaceX’s Elon Musk elaborates on plan to colonize Mars

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 30, 2015, file photo, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils the company's newest products, in Hawthorne, Calif. Tesla Motors is starting to build its electric cars with all the sensors, cameras and other gear needed to drive completely on their own when regulations allow the technology to take over that responsibility. The announcement made late Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, by Tesla CEO Musk marks the Silicon Valley automaker's next step toward selling cars that can navigate the roads without the help of a human. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Tesla CEO: Criticism of self-driving cars can kill people

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

In this April 30, 2015, file photo, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk unveils the company's newest products, in Hawthorne, Calif. Tesla Motors is starting to build its electric cars with all the sensors, cameras and other gear needed to drive completely on their own when regulations allow the technology to take over that responsibility. The announcement made late Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016, by Tesla CEO Musk marks the Silicon Valley automaker's next step toward selling cars that can navigate the roads without the help of a human. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Tesla equipping cars to drive completely on their own

By Michael Liedtke - Associated Press

This artist's rendering provided by SpaceX on Tuesday, Sept 27, 2016 shows the company's proposed Interplanetary Transport System passenger module on the surface a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter. For the past decade, Elon Musk has borrowed from science fiction and fantasy when naming his rockets, engines, capsules and other space doodads. For his first passenger ship, he is leaning toward the name &quot;Heart of Gold,&quot; the starship in the novel &quot;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.&quot; (SpaceX via AP)

Elon Musk’s ticket to Mars

By Bruce Fein

This artist's rendering provided by SpaceX on Tuesday, Sept 27, 2016 shows the company's proposed Interplanetary Transport System passenger module on the surface a moon orbiting the planet Jupiter. For the past decade, Elon Musk has borrowed from science fiction and fantasy when naming his rockets, engines, capsules and other space doodads. For his first passenger ship, he is leaning toward the name &quot;Heart of Gold,&quot; the starship in the novel &quot;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.&quot; (SpaceX via AP)

SpaceX’s Elon Musk turns to science fiction for Mars ship

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force station Friday, March 3, 2016. The rocket is carrying the SES-9 communications satellite. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX chief envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying to Mars

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

In this May 29, 2014, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, introduces the SpaceX Dragon V2 spaceship at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. Musk predicted during an interview at the Code Conference in southern California on June 1, 2016, that people would be on Mars in 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Elon Musk, SpaceX chief, predicts people on Mars in 9 years

Associated Press

Keanu Reeves stars as Neo in "The Matrix Reloaded." ** FILE **

Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO: ‘One-in-billions’ chance humans not in computer simulation

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. The rocket, carrying 11 communications satellites for Orbcomm, Inc., is the first launch of the rocket since a failed mission to the International Space Station in June. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP) ** FILE **

SpaceX lands rocket at sea 2nd time after satellite launch

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

In this Sept. 4, 2014, photo, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, left, and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval shake hands following a news conference where Nevada was announced as the new site for a car battery gigafactory, at the Capitol in Carson City, Nev. Several company leaders said electric car company Tesla, which is building a massive battery plant near Reno, was responsible, in part, for triggering new interest in Nevada's potential supply of lithium. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, File)

BRUCE FEIN: Elon Musk: Let the public be fleeced

By Bruce Fein

Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk gives a speech at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, in this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, file photo. Tesla Motors is set to unveil the Model 3, its first car in the $35,000 range. The Model 3 is the most serious test yet of 13-year-old Tesla’s ability to go from a niche player to a full-fledged automaker. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Affordable Model 3 is Tesla’s biggest test yet

By Dee-Ann Durbin and Justin Pritchard - Associated Press

SpaceX's Dragon capsule launches, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, from Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX fired the mock-up capsule to test the new, super-streamlined launch escape system for astronauts. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

SpaceX capsule soars with dummy in 1st test of crew escape

By Marcia Dunn - Associated Press

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., unveils the company’s newest product, Powerpack in Hawthorne, Calif., Thursday, April 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, plugs into new market with home battery system

By Michael Liedtke and Jonathan Fahey - Associated Press

SpaceX billionaire founder and chief executive, and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, poses beside a Tesla, after his interview on "Countdown to the Closing Bell," on the Fox Business Network, in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. On Tuesday, NASA picked Boeing and SpaceX to transport astronauts to the International Space Station in the next few years.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

EDITORIAL: One-percenters’ car, jet subsidies don’t help environment

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A banner welcoming Tesla to Nevada is hung on the US Bank building just south of the downtown Reno casino district on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, in Renvo, Nev. State lawmakers planned to meet in a special legislative session in Carson City on Wednesday to consider a package of tax breaks and incentives worth up to $1.3 billion to seal a deal to bring the electric car maker's $5 billion lithium battery &quot;gigafactory'' to an industrial park in the state. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

Nevada lawmakers considering $1.3B Tesla package

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, May 29, 2014, file photo, Elon Musk, CEO and CTO of SpaceX, introduces the SpaceX Dragon V2 spaceship at the SpaceX headquarters on, in Hawthorne, Calif. Tesla Motors is opening access to its patents to accelerate electric vehicle development. Musk says the company will share several hundred patents and won't sue those who use them. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

EDITORIAL: The courage to share

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Garrett Reisman, program lead for crew vehicles of the SpaceX, stands inside the SpaceX Dragon V2 at the headquarters on Thursday, May 29, 2014, in Hawthorne, Calif. SpaceX, which has flown unmanned cargo capsules to the International Space Station, unveiled the new spacecraft Thursday designed to ferry astronauts to low-Earth orbit. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

5 things to know about SpaceX’s flight plans

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Plans unveiled for new ‘space taxi’ to transport U.S. astronauts

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times