Category Archives: Political Commentary

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.

SLS

It’s official; they’re going to do another static fire, perhaps this month. This almost certainly moves the first flight out to next year. Not that it matters.

[Update at noon]

Meanwhile…

[Afternoon update]