NASA administrator Bill Nelson called for an investigation into a report that Elon Musk has been having secret conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin while dually involved in classified intelligence contracts with the U.S. government.
“I don’t know that that story is true. I think it should be investigated,” Nelson said Fridayat a Semafor conference in Washington. “If the story’s true, that there have been multiple conversations between Elon Musk and the president of Russia, then I think that would be concerning, particularly for NASA, the Department of Defense, for some of the intelligence agencies.”
Ohhhh boy. Don’t fuck with the space program.
The severely under funded space program? Oh yeah, that things super valued.
Well, NASA sometimes works with sensitive info and projects of which sometimes can get shared with their contractors, SpaceX included. Having Musk going through with his escapades, acting otherwise unstably, and now talking with an unfriendly figure to the US. It starts to raise some serious questions regarding national security. NASA is more or less just bringing it to attention.
Lol, everything in the states is under funded with the exception of the military, so it’s a good thing the military doesn’t need to send anything to space.
Edit: Apparently I dropped this /s
Air Force and Space Force(cringe) often send up satellites and other material into space.
https://www.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Article/2197774/defense-support-program-satellites/
https://spacenews.com/air-force-selects-space-programs-for-quick-start-initiative/
Also NASA was initially just a program to develop ICBMs
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-349-95851-1_3
