IEThe Irish Times
An 18m crater on the moon is the smallest of our Elon Musk-shaped problems
SpaceX incident felt like a parable for the move-fast-and-break-things leadership style espoused by the Tesla founder
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- 15 Sept 2026, 16:45 UTC
- Last checked
- 16 Sept 2026, 06:01 UTC
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- 1 version
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- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 07 Aug 2026, 05:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Liz Carolan
- Section
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SpaceX incident felt like a parable for the move-fast-and-break-things leadership style espoused by the Tesla founder
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An 18m crater on the moon is the smallest of our Elon Musk-shaped problems
SpaceX incident felt like a parable for the move-fast-and-break-things leadership style espoused by the Tesla founder
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- #10518
- Observed
- 15 Sept 2026, 16:45 UTC
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- 200 / parsed
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- news-ledger/0.1
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