SPACEX: Petty Potentates Play Politics While Elon’s Rockets Make History

No sooner had Elon’s company rescued 2 American astronauts from a NASA/Boeing mission gone wrong than he’s achieving the impossible with his reusable rockets.

Right between those two moments (and around the time his Starlink tech was saving the day in Hurricane-hit parts of the country) was the announcement of a lawsuit against a petulant government agency that is explicitly punishing him for having the wrong political opinion.

For anyone wondering — that’s still illegal. Even in California. Something about a Constitution protecting the rights of the citizen or whatever.

First, let’s celebrate the accomplishment:

Elon’s SpaceX has just done something so outrageous that it shouldn’t even be possible. And yet, for the first time in human history — it’s been done.

In an effort to shed precious weight off of the rocket booster that was designed to be reused, Elon’s team designed the landing gear in a fixed structure on land and had the rocket return to it.

It’s an absolutely bonkers re-thinking of space flight. And it worked.

The super-heavy booster is 232 feet tall. Roughly a sixteen-story building.
It was landed between to horizontal arms of a tower gently enough that the tower could safely catch it.

It worked on the first try.

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster! pic.twitter.com/6R5YatSVJX

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 13, 2024

How is California rewarding the most prolific innovator in America today?

They’ve looked at his political views and decided to limit the rate of his rocket testing for having the ‘wrong’ views.

The LA Times headline pretty much tells the whole story: California officials reject more SpaceX rocket launches, with some citing Musk’s X posts

Incredibly inappropriate. What I post on this platform has nothing to do with a “coastal commission” in California!

Filing suit against them on Monday for violating the First Amendment. https://t.co/bDgFPTdNal

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2024

Right.

Speaking of government… What’s NASA been up to these days, besides stranding astronauts in space?

Are they advancing rocket design?
Workshopping a replacement for the aging ISS?
Looking into an in-house solution for delivering payloads to orbit?

They are — *checks notes* — testing how racist the air is… for some reason.

For the bargain basement price of a half-million dollars.

NASA grant (2024)
Amount: $486,760
Recipient: The Johns Hopkins University
Purpose: Resolving intra-urban variability in heat and air quality from space and the ground: leveraging diverse observations to support environmental justicehttps://t.co/T3FWLfs8oP

— RandoLand.us (@RandoLand_us) October 13, 2024

Is it any WONDER we were hitching rides with the Russians before Elon came around?

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