NASA Director Says He Trusts SpaceX Because Elon Musk Isn't The One Running It
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Elon Musk, multi millionaire, rocket scientist, Tesla and Space X founder and the man who inspired Tony Stark’s character in Jon Favreau’s “Iron Man” at his desk March 19, 2004 in El Segundo, Los Angeles, California
Photo: Paul Harris (Getty Images) prior to assuming the role of NASA director. According to former NASA
deputy director Lori Garver’s book, Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age, Garver says that Nelson “led the opposition” to SpaceX when he was still a senator. His opposition was primarily aimed at Musk’s
eccentric ways and volatile behavior as the lead of a company that could potentially have global impact. According to Futurism
,”Elon Musk’s decision-making has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years when it comes to some of his other companies, Twitter and Tesla,” interviewer Scott Detrow asked. “Are you concerned that so much of this plan is in the hands of Elon Musk at this point in time?”
“Elon Musk... one of the most important decisions he made, as a matter of fact, is he picked a president named Gwynne Shotwell,” Nelson demurred. “She runs SpaceX. She is excellent. And so I have no concerns.”
This isn’t the first time the NASA director and former Florida senator has expressed similar sentiments.
A few months after Musk bought Twitter — though before he disastrously renamed it “X” — in late 2022, Nelson recounted to NBC News
his relief when discussing the acquisition with the SpaceX president.
“Tell me that the distraction that Elon might have on Twitter is not going to affect SpaceX,” Nelson recalled querying Shotwell.
In response, she apparently told him that it hadn’t harmed the spaceflight company and that he had “nothing to worry about.”
“I hugged her with a smile on my face, because I know she is running that thing,” the NASA director continued. “She’s running SpaceX.”
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