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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Maybe I’m alone, but this feels like a huge, “no shit”.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Idk why but I assumed getting investigated was a large part of getting government aerospace contracts but I guess that's just the movies

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

You would certainly hope so, but the government really likes the lowest bidders. So they likely don’t look to carefully into contractors.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I guess that's just the movies

Close. It’s just the non-billionaires

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not so huge, he's a billionaire.

In theory he's allowed to:

  • mistreat his workers
  • not pay his bills
  • pump and dump stocks
  • undermine the worlds help to Ukraine by messing with their internet for Russia
  • Steal subsidies for EVs and lying about the capabilities
  • Bribing officials to get public transport contracts and never fulfill them
  • bribe voters / election interference
  • defame everyone on his platform with misinformation and supports domestic terrorism

There's plenty more, he's probably heavily cooking the books at Tesla too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In theory he isn't allowed to. Practically he is, which is just as bad IMO

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

But then after they say it nothing usually happens. As if just saying it is enough

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

Musk has a security clearance for the SpaceX contracts, right? Did he file the proper forms reporting the foreign contacts?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stop giving any money to that dipshit. He is literally the biggest welfare queen in the history of mankind

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No, force him to divest from spacex. It's too valuable for our space industry to just stop using it.

Fuck, just make him give it to Gwynne Shotwell.

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234 6 points 1 month ago

It would be strange for SpaceX to become a state-owned company like Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, TVA or USPS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The faith people have that shotwell is insulating SpaceX from Musk's incompetency feels more hopeful than factual.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No, nationalize it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"We don't want to make these investigations look political"- DOJ

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Once the election is over, the DOJ may or may not investigate depending on who wins the election.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And there's nothing political about that, of course.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And then right after he posts this fucking video of himself playing Diablo 2 while in a SpaceX launch review meeting:

https://x.com/joroulette/status/1849917452202934572

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The SpaceX CEO's name really is Shotwell?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Should someone from the DOJ be saying something along these lines?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bill has spoken. Investigate away!

[–] treadful 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's Administrator Bill Nelson to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Used to be my Senator and we've had a few conversations.