NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told Semafor’s Burgess Everett Friday that a Wall Street Journal report about calls between SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin “should be investigated.”
“I don’t know if that story is true,” Nelson said. “If it’s true there have been multiple conversations with Elon Musk and the president of Russia, then that would be concerning, particularly for NASA and the Department of Defense,” he added.
SpaceX is a key commercial partner for NASA: On Friday, NASA’s Crew-8 mission members returned to Earth on a SpaceX capsule. Speaking at Semafor’s World Economy Summit in Washington, DC, Nelson stressed that the agency was nonpartisan and praised his dealings with SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell. The NASA head said that Musk largely leaves her to run the company, which he added has “been phenomenally successful.”
Maybe I’m alone, but this feels like a huge, “no shit”.
Idk why but I assumed getting investigated was a large part of getting government aerospace contracts but I guess that’s just the movies
You would certainly hope so, but the government really likes the lowest bidders. So they likely don’t look to carefully into contractors.
Close. It’s just the non-billionaires
Not so huge, he’s a billionaire.
In theory he’s allowed to:
There’s plenty more, he’s probably heavily cooking the books at Tesla too.
In theory he isn’t allowed to. Practically he is, which is just as bad IMO
I get so tired of these headlines that are basically “Authority figure says obvious thing”. Like, yeah, and so do most other people, thanks for the update.
But then after they say it nothing usually happens. As if just saying it is enough
https://youtu.be/yI4sEnIBv84?si=jLXkkmX0S5AmLpkX