NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says the president of SpaceX gave him assurances that 'the distraction that Elon might have on Twitter' will not affect the private space company
Alex Brandon / AP/FILENASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he saw the head of SpaceX last weekend and wanted to hear just one thing from her in light of company owner“Tell me that the distraction that Elon might have on Twitter is not going to affect SpaceX,” Nelson, recalling the conversation, said he asked Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and CEO.
“I assure you, it is not,” Shotwell responded, according to Nelson. “You have nothing to worry about.”in Houston, said the encounter took place after the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington D.C., on Dec. 5 and that it was completely friendly because he knows Shotwell — not Musk — is running SpaceX. “I hugged her with a smile on my face, because I know she is running that thing. She’s running SpaceX,” Nelson said.NASA pays billions to SpaceX to shuttle astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space Station.
Nelson, a longtime friend and former Senate colleague of President Joe Biden’s, was tapped to lead NASA last year and has been a booster of public-private space exploration,
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