I agree with Bob Zimmerman: SpaceX should fight, particularly in light of Loper.
[Update a while later]
Yesterday the FAA Administrator demonstrated why the FAA should not be in charge of commercial space transportation anymore. — jamesmuncy https://t.co/zQ3EdESL69
— James A. M. Muncy (@JamesMuncy) September 25, 2024
Sonic booms?! I know I have trauma from sonic booms from
Richards-Gebaur AFB while riding my bike in Kansas City in the 60’s.
“I think they need to operate at the highest level of safety, and that includes adopting an SMS [safety management system] program and that includes having a whistleblower program.”
What an odd thing to say.
Looks like Musk has some Democrat saboteurs working for his company. Have to give Democrats credit for being such great schemers.
When bureaucrats are concerned so much about “safety”, it’s usually their careers they’re talking about. Giving permission is risky because things could go wrong. It’s always safer from a career perspective to deny permission. This applies to just about all bureaucracies and bureaucrats, not just the FAA.
I still say that Elon Musk’s best hope is the designs that the pentagon probably have on space x’s super heavy /starship to be used to launch its satellites (spy/SDI/etc.) in Earth orbit. DOD/CIA/DIA/etc have vastly more clout than NASA or space X they won’t let bureaucrats stand in the way of their likely ambitions for long. Once it is proven to work of course that important caveat.