#Politics #NASA From #NYTimes:
"Even before Donald J. Trump was re-elected, his best-known backer, Elon Musk, had come to him with a request for his presidential transition.
"He wanted Mr. Trump to hire some employees from Mr. Musk’s rocket company, #SpaceX, as top government officials — including at the Defense Department, according to two people briefed on the calls."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-benefits.html
#Politics #NASA #SpaceX #Trump
From #ArsTechnica:
"Musk is unquestionably in a position for self-dealing. Normally, such conflicts of interest would be frowned on within a government, but Trump has already shown a brazen disregard for norms, and there's no reason to believe that will change during his second go at the presidency."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/space-policy-is-about-to-get-pretty-wild-yall/
@WordsmithFL Well shoot, I could see this as how the division between the inner planets and belters started in Corey's Expanse series!
Belters of course being those that displease the cult leader and his buddies, and are deported to the belt and later leveraged for indentured labor.