I don't understand the modern US trend of putting unqualified people in charge. It's not just the republicans though, seems like a deeper cultural issue. There

I don't understand the modern US trend of putting unqualified people in charge. It's not just the republicans though, seems like a deeper cultural issue. There has been close to zero scientists in charge of policy in the last several decades. This sort of thing is why China keeps pulling ahead. While we have this dude figuring out how NASA can be gutted further, China has ~2.5 space agencies, and without Spacex doing our heavylifting, they would have been already ahead. They expect to have something like Falcon 9 pretty soon, which implies a starlink competitor in a matter of years.