The Pentagon is taking another look at SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's security clearance, according to Bloomberg. Musk infamously smoked marijuana on Joe Rogan's podcast last year.
of Hawthorne-based SpaceX and another of its contractors, aerospace giant Boeing Co., to “ensure the companies are meeting NASA’s requirements for workplace safety, including the adherence to a drug-free environment.”that NASA’s safety review was spurred by Musk’s pot smoking on the podcast.
SpaceX and Boeing have been awarded separate NASA contracts to build capsules to transport astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s first test flight of its Crew Dragon capsule, without humans aboard,In December, weeks after NASA announced its safety review, a U.S. Air Force officialThe Air Force relies on SpaceX and on United Launch Alliance — a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp. — to launch sensitive national security satellites.
“We actually do not have a concern about their processes,” Col. Robert Bongiovi, director of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s launch enterprise systems directorate, told reporters in December.
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