These procedures followed pre -protocols. However, the danger of small, but non -zero wreckage has highlighted on the ground after the release failure. “The possibility of a bad day has become real,” Lori Garver, a former NASA deputy, Posted on X.
Public safety is not a single mandate for the FAA commercial space office. He is also a tenant “encouraging the private sector, facilitating and encouraging it to launch the commercial space and re -entering by the private sector”, ” According to the FAA website. There is a balance of beating.
Last year, legislators urged the Federal Aviation Administration to accelerate their operating approvals, in the first place because the central vehicle is essential in strategic national goals. NASA has contracts with Spacex to develop a variable of spacecraft to astronauts on the moon, and the unparalleled Starship capacity to provide more than 100 tons of goods to low -Earth orbit to the Pentagon.
In 2024, Musk FAA criticized, in 2023, Spacex officials took a different tone, and they called on Congress to increase the FAA budget from FAA for commercial space and running to double the workforce in the space department. Spacex officials have argued, this change, will allow FAA to evaluate a number and a rapid number of commercial launch applications and re -enter.
In September, Spacex issued a statement accusing the former official of the Federal Aviation Administration, Michael Whitaker, of submitting inaccurate data about Spacex to a sub -committee of Congress. In a different post on X, Musk called directly to the resignation of Whitaker.
It needs resignation https://t.co/pg8htftyhb
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 25, 2024
This is exactly what happened. Whitaker, who held the position of best job in the Federal Aviation Administration in 2023 under Biden’s management, announced in December that he would resign on the opening day. Since the establishment of the agency in 1958, three FAA officials have resigned when a new management of power is in power, but the office has been largely fortified from the presidential policy in recent decades. Since 1993, FAA officials have been in office during all presidential shifts.