If you just ignore the political news and Wall Street, Elon Musk had an incredible week. His company SpaceX pulled off an engineering marvel on Sunday when it launched the largest, most powerful rocket in the world — and on the first try,

The heavy rocket is central to Nasa’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon, and to Musk’s own vision of colonising Mars. In a typically stretched target, Musk announced on his X site last month that he planned about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years and,