These actions have been accompanied by prior protocols. However, it emphasized that the rocket shards that fell to the earth were not zero after the launch failure. “The possibility of downrising on a bad day has become real,” he said, former NASA deputy administrator Lori Gerber. Post to X。
Public safety is not the only mission of FAA commercial space office. It is also chartered to encourage, promote, and promote the release and revival of commercial spaces by the private sector. According to the FAA website。 There is a balance that strikes.
Last year, the lawmakers urged the FAA to speed up the release approval, mainly because the spacecraft was the center of strategic national goals. NASA has signed a contract with SPACEX and develops a spacecraft variant to land astronauts on the moon, and the unparalleled abilities of spacecraft that deliver more than 100 tons of cargo to the low -globe orbitals are pentagonal. It is attractive.
The mask criticized the FAA in 2024, but in 2023, SpaceX officials gained different tones, the parliament increased the budget of the FAA Commercial Space Authority, and the regulatory authorities doubled the labor in the universe category. I asked for it. SPACEX officials argued that this change could evaluate and approve the rapidly growing commercial and re -enrollment applications.
In September, SPACEX issued a statement that FAA’s former administrator Michael Whitaker accused the parliamentary subcommittee on the SPACEX statement. In another post of X, Musk directly called WHITAKER resignation.
-ELON MUSK (@elonmusk) September 25, 2024
That’s exactly what happened. In 2023, Witaker, who took over the FAA’s top job under the Biden administration, announced that it would resign in December. Since the establishment of an institution in 1958, three FAA administrators resigned in the same way, and resigned when the new administration took power, but this office is mainly immunity from presidential politics in recent decades. there was. Since 1993, FAA administrators have stayed in the post during all the presidents.
