{"id":463905,"date":"2026-05-23T21:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T21:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:05:19","slug":"nicki-minaj-attends-elon-musks-failed-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/463905\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Attends Elon Musk\u2019s Failed Rocket Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/99bf3876f595f17e5ccb242f835143674a-nickiminaj-space.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Nicki Minaj<br \/>\n                  Photo: Win McNamee\/Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmph1w8tv000i0igr0dexazcr@published\" data-word-count=\"142\">Is it bossed up to attend the launch of a spaceship that never takes off? Nicki Minaj took time out of her busy schedule of yelling on X and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/nicki-minaj-why-donald-trump.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">praising the Trumps<\/a> to attend the launch of a SpaceX rocket that never took off. Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX attempted to launch its Starship megarocket into space yesterday from its location in Starbase, Texas, and Minaj was in attendance, wearing a \u201cStarship\u201d shirt, which sounds a lot like her song \u201cStarships.\u201d She even went on the SpaceX livestream, where a host asked what the Barbz will think of her attendance. Minaj theorized that \u201cthey\u2019re gonna be excited and they\u2019re probably gonna wanna come themselves next time.\u201d She then opined, \u201cThis is historic. This is a major moment, y\u2019all.\u201d Finally, she added, unprompted, \u201cShout-out to Elon. Elon, thank you for everything you\u2019re doing for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmph2ogbf000x3b7cj11m3chs@published\" data-word-count=\"68\">The company ultimately had to reschedule the launch for today because the \u201chydraulic pin holding the tower arm in place did not retract,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2057609682865254695?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Musk\u2019s social media<\/a>. The stakes are high for SpaceX, as the company is about to launch on the stock market, aiming for the highest initial public offering that Wall Street has ever seen, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cg4pe2953q1o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>. All that for a rocket that can\u2019t launch?<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Starships are meant to fly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NICKIMINAJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gwprhU4AV2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/gwprhU4AV2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2057603769081188391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>          Sign up for The Critics<\/p>\n<p>A weekly dispatch on the cultural discourse, for subscribers only.<\/p>\n<p>        Vox Media, LLC Terms and Privacy Notice<\/p>\n<p class=\"expanded-terms \" aria-hidden=\"true\">By submitting your email, you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/terms\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/newyork\/privacy\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Photo: Win McNamee\/Getty Images Is it bossed up to attend the launch of a spaceship that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[921,605,61,60,200639,278,43,24453,646,82,247,2306,2308,200641,200640],"class_list":["post-463905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-celebrity","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-megarockets","tag-music","tag-news","tag-nicki-minaj","tag-rap","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starship","tag-starships","tag-twinkle-twinkle-little-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}