Elon Musk’s Heartfelt Message About His Mother’s Battle with Cancer
While its visionary Elon Musk reveals a personal struggle as his mother, Maye Musk battles a grim health battle, the faces of the three companies he has won the world by also changed dramatically.
In a sentimental X post, Musk revealed that his 75 years old mother has indeed been diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, a relatively uncommon cancer of the head and neck.
The message that he wants to convey is both weak and strong, which has provoked a roar of solidarity from the world which has emphasized on the hidden connections that stretch beyond his public identity as someone on top of tech world. The news made by Musk on X evoked raw emotion:
“My mother – the most powerful woman I know – is fighting a breast cancer fight. Please pray for her. The post picked up millions of reactions as followers, celebrities, and public figures coyly posted countless messages of hope in the comments.
However, there is an underlying story of Maye Musk’s remarkable life that goes far beyond the viral moment—a tale of Endurance that has informed her son’s lavish work ethic and ambition. Maye Musk’s influence over the ‘Tesla’ empire is more expansive than being the mother of Elon.
A well-known model and an accountant, she was a Registered Dietitian and a two-time survivor of adversity, and yet thru her life she lived persevering. Escaping an abusive marriage in her 30s, she raised Elon and his siblings Tosca and Kimbal on her own after securing multiple jobs to take care of the family bills.
She has always attributed this to her children serving as her lifelines during the difficult era, she remembers attending interviews saying she used to work as a dietitian and model to finance Elon’s early ventures. In her 70’s, resilience in her changed direction on how she defined aging in the fashion world.
Reversing trends, she graced the runways of Fashion Week in New York to become a darling of brands such as CoverGirl, yet she emerged as a sign of being empowered to the women folk, across the globe.
Her memoir A Women Makes a Plan describes her philosophy of stepping up to the challenges—this is obviously the ethos she also passed on to her children. Very rare nasal-pharyngeal cancer that occurs in the space that bridges the two sections of the body (nose and throat) only makes up 0.2 % of cancers worldwide.
Characteristically, such symptoms might include constant nasal blockage, hearing deficiency, neck lumps, and treatment entails radiation, chemotherapy or surgery. Musk has failed to reveal details on mother’s prognosis but stressed her fighting spirit: “She is being treated and is fighting like a warrior”.
Medical professionals report that although early detection and advances in this targeted therapy have made some strides, the path ahead is still arduous. The #PrayForMaye hashtag has become a virtual battle cry, bringing together all users of the social networks.
Literally from the stars of Hollywood to politicians and ordinary people, the combined reactions both emphasize the human element in such situations. At SpaceX headquarters located in Hawthorne, California, workers spoke of the evocative sense of gloominess and how colleagues would share stories of Maye’s occasional trips into the headquarters and the silent impact she had on the company culture.
“She is the backbone of Elon’s universe” one employee had commented. “Her strength is his strength.” Facing this new challenge, Maye’s journey confirms an eternal ‘truth’: … Adversity knows no one, but it can empower millions in returning.
For Elon Musk, who dreams of colonizing Mars and in developing the next AI, this is a very sad reminder of the woman who taught him the golden rule of never giving up, no matter how hard life gets, no matter what is the next challenge.
The entire global community is now united with the Musk family in a march towards social media feeds becoming lattices of shared hope. With the journey before her uncertain, only time will tell how Maye will approach the obstacle,
but from the pages of her history of victory, she will come to this battle the same grace and perseverance meting its way through her experience – a history that shapes her young son’s future successes as well as the lives of those inspired by her story.
News about Maye Musk’s state of health are awaited as she is undergoing treatment. Meanwhile the world looks on, hopes, and prays–for the warrior behind the legend.
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Trump Urges Elon Musk to Rescue NASA Astronauts Stranded in Space
Donald Trump orders Elon Musk to ‘go get’ NASA astronauts that have been ‘abandoned’ in space for over 6 months
Since June 2024, NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have remained stranded at the space station, unable to make their return journey to Earth.
President Donald Trump has called on Elon Musk and SpaceX to retrieve two astronauts, alleging that the Biden Administration has left them stranded in space.
Starting from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 5, 2024, the Boeing Starliner Calypso, which was operated by NASA, embarked on a journey to the International Space Station (ISS) that would last for a total of eight days.
Unfortunately, it has been more than six months since the astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore were taken out of space, and they have not yet returned.
During the approach of the Boeing Starliner Calypso to the International Space Station (ISS), the thrusters of the capsule had a failure. As a result, NASA determined that it would be too risky for Williams and Wilmore to return to Earth onboard the space vehicle as scheduled on June 14.
Furthermore, their return was subsequently postponed, and a plan was put in place for the duo to travel back with SpaceX Crew-9. However, NASA later revealed in a blog post that they had further adjusted the date for Williams and Wilmore to be picked up.
‘Aiming no sooner than late March 2025 to launch four crew members to the International Space Station’ was the explanation that was provided on the website of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission.
The modification provides the teams from NASA and SpaceX with additional time to finish processing on a new Dragon spacecraft that will be used for the trip. It is anticipated that the new spacecraft will arrive at the processing facility of the business in Florida at the beginning of January,” the statement continued.
As a consequence of this, the return of Williams and Wilmore to Earth would be postponed until March in the year 2025.
Despite this, Donald Trump has reportedly made a request to Elon Musk to bring the astronauts back to Earth even sooner. He made this announcement on his social media platform, Truth Social, last night (January 28), saying, “I have just asked Elon Musk and Space X to ‘go get’ the two courageous astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration.”
They have been waiting on the Space Station for a considerable amount of time. Elon is going to arrive in a short while. I am hoping that everyone will be safe. Success to you, Elon!!!”
Musk posted the message on Twitter earlier today, and he accompanied it with an emoji that looked like a salute.
In spite of the fact that Trump has accused “the Biden Administration” of having “virtually abandoned” the astronauts, NASA has stated that it and SpaceX have “assessed various options for managing the next crewed handover.
” These options include the utilisation of another Dragon spacecraft and manifest modifications.
“After careful consideration, the team determined that launching Crew-10 in late March, following completion of the new Dragon spacecraft, was the best option for meeting NASA’s requirements and achieving space station objectives for 2025,” its blog post stated in its conclusion.
