Yeah, it is a tad off-putting.
I find that I can still be excited about the progress SpaceX is making, even if the CEO is going off the rails. I’m glad that Gwynne Shotwell seems to be pretty level-headed.
Glad I’m not the only one. Star Link in particular is starting to make me very uncomfortable 😕
SpaceX ironically was one of the outlets I had to avoid the doom of politics, now it’s just all blending together and I’m running out of places to find any hope.
Yeah, now that we know Starlink is led by a nazi, it changes from “a good idea to fund the Starship program” to “a means of controlling people, killing the net neutrality, and giving even more spying capabilities to the US military”. The nail in the coffin for me was when I learned that a senior SpaceX employee (who joined in 2003) was actively taking part in the DOGE thing. Looks like SpaceX might be rotten at its core too, and this is very very sad to learn.