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Not sure though. SpaceX is a federal contractor. And to be at the helm of a company with federal access, you might need a clean record. When Musk was smoking p
by openmosix 8y ago
Not sure though. SpaceX is a federal contractor. And to be at the helm of a company with federal access, you might need a clean record. When Musk was smoking pot on radio, the AirForce had to look into it to see if there was any actions they needed to take.
- vkou 8y agoWhy didn't they? He was committing a federal crime.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoYou don't want to have to go hat in hand to the Russians for RD-180 engines to launch your national security payloads (which the Russians specifically won't sell their engines to US integrators for [1] [2]), or waste $100 million more on an unnecessary Delta launch (vs Atlas). Better to ignore a minor infraction. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+engines+national+security+payloads https://www.google.com/search?q=russian+engines+national+sec... [2] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/americas-national-security-depends-russian-rocket-engines-16513 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/americas-national...