Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during his visit to the U.S. to meet President Donald Trump. The exact nature of the meeting is unclear, although Modi said on X that the two men “discussed various issues,

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the United States, but before meeting with President Trump, he met with someone arguably more powerful: Elon Musk.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Elon Musk, the Head of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, in Washington on Thursday. Musk presented PM Modi with a heat shield tile that flew on SpaceXs Starship flight test 5 which took place in October last year.