Nicki Minaj stole the highlight on Thursday when she made an look throughout SpaceX’s dwell Starship Flight 12 webcast from the corporate’s Starbase facility in Texas.
The rapper-turned-MAGA-influencer appeared on the livestream phase, the place she instantly addressed SpaceX founder Elon Musk. In her quick assertion, she supplied reward and gratitude for the Tesla co-founder, encouraging her fanbase to help him.
“Elon, thanks for all the pieces you might be doing for humanity,” Minaj stated on-air, happening to shoutout the Barbz whereas telling them to tune into future SpaceX launches. Her cameo shortly grew to become one of the talked-about moments of the published, together with her presence overshadowing a lot of the technical commentary main as much as the launch try.
The interplay got here simply as SpaceX was getting ready for the twelfth check flight of its Starship program, a milestone mission for the corporate’s next-generation V3 spacecraft. Nonetheless, the launch by no means materialized. Within the remaining minute of the countdown, SpaceX aborted liftoff resulting from a technical difficulty, halting what had been a extremely anticipated debut.
The corporate later introduced the launch could be rescheduled for Friday at 6:30 p.m. EDT. SpaceX commentator Dan Huot famous through the broadcast that the group was nonetheless adapting to the brand new system.
“New rocket, new pad, we’re studying lots about these new methods as we execute them for the primary time,” Huot stated, including that one other try would probably comply with inside 24 hours.
Minaj went on to put up some extra content material in regards to the launch to her profile on X, reposting a video of her look and including a rocket emoji. She posted one other clip doing a ‘match test to the tune her collaboration with Justin Bieber, “Magnificence and a Beat,” bragging that she, “Even did a lil video for the Barbz” whereas on the Starbase.
It’s at present unclear whether or not or not Nicki will attend the rescheduled launch.
