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Is Today The Day?

I’m assuming they have clearance from the FAA now.

[Update a while later]

Here’s the story on what happened with the FAA. I’d like to understand more detail on it. I’d be surprised if SpaceX really knowingly launched without authorization. I wonder if there was a miscommunication?

[Update a few minutes later]

Bob Zimmerman has more, with links.

[Post-flight update]

[Thursday-morning update]

You have to appreciate that kind of honesty in a CEO.

[Bumped]

[Afternoon update]

Per the comment that he was being sarcastic:

First The FAA

…now this: “The Department of Justice filed a request for a court order to enforce an administrative subpoena in an investigation into Space X on a charge of discrimination in hiring. According to the filing, the DOJ’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) said it received a complaint from a non-citizen in May, and Space X had not fully complied with information requests…”

I don’t know if this is hostility to SpaceX from the new administration, zealousness in “protecting” immigrants, or both.