{"id":170141,"date":"2025-02-15T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T09:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=170141"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T09:35:35","slug":"pm-modi-receives-starship-heatshield-tile-from-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pm-modi-receives-starship-heatshield-tile-from-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi Receives Starship Heatshield Tile from Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On February 13, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the Blair House in Washington, D.C. During their meeting, Musk presented PM Modi with a hexagonal ceramic heatshield tile that had flown on SpaceX\u2019s Starship test flight 5 in October 2024. This exchange, which also featured Modi gifting classic Indian books to Musk\u2019s children, represented a deeper connection between India and Musk\u2019s initiatives in space, mobility, and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Gift Exchange<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Elon Musk\u2019s Gift:\u00a0A heatshield tile from Starship Flight Test 5 (October 13, 2024), engraved with its mission details.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Significance of the Tile: Designed to protect spacecraft from extreme heat during atmospheric re-entry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Modi\u2019s Gift<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three Indian classic books,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Crescent Moon by Rabindranath Tagore<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Great RK Narayan Collection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Panchatantra by Pandit Vishnu Sharma<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting Details<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Date &amp; Location:\u00a0February 13, 2025, at Blair House, Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Attendees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PM Narendra Modi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elon Musk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Musk\u2019s partner Shivon Zilis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Musk\u2019s three children<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 13, 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk at the Blair House in Washington, D.C. During their meeting, Musk presented PM Modi with a hexagonal ceramic heatshield tile that had flown on SpaceX\u2019s Starship test flight 5 in October 2024. This exchange, which also featured Modi gifting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":170149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5359],"tags":[3542,58,2780],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-170141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2025","tag-elon-musk","tag-international-current-affairs","tag-pm-modi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170150,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170141\/revisions\/170150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170141"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=170141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}