Head of NASA Not Happy That Elon Musk Has Been Secretly Taking Orders From Putin

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Head of NASA Not Happy That Elon Musk Has Been Secretly Taking Orders From ******

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NASA administrator Bill Nelson isn’t happy with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after the

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that he has been in “regular contact” with Russian president Vladimir ****** for several years — even reportedly taking orders from the despot to prevent the activation of Starlink satellites over Taiwan as a favor to ******** leader Xi Jinping.

Nelson

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during Friday’s Semafor World Economy Summit that he thinks the story “should be investigated.”

“If its true there have been multiple conversations with Elon Musk and the president of Russia then that would be concerning particularly for NASA and the Department of Defense,” he added.

It’s a notable rebuke given SpaceX’s close ties to both the space agency and the Pentagon. The space company has launched

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, while NASA has become reliant on its

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to reach the International Space Station.

Having the space company’s chief executive take orders or reveal potentially incriminating secrets to the head of the ******* States’ biggest adversary could have troubling implications — something that Nelson seems painfully aware of.

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Musk’s increasingly polarizing and problematic behavior has put the space agency in a difficult position.

For his part, Nelson has maintained that Musk’s antics haven’t been able to rock the boat too much, since in his estimation SpaceX’s president Gwynne Shotwell is the one truly in charge.

“The good news about that is that Elon has a president that he lets run the company,” he

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last month.

But now that he has reportedly been talking with ******, Nelson has taken a different tune.

Musk has yet to respond to the claims. A Kremlin spokesperson told the newspaper that Musk and ****** had only met once to discuss “space as well as current and future technologies.”

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Musk at first seemed opposed to ******’s land grab, aiding the Ukrainian side by sending

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But then, as the WSJ reports, his tone changed considerably in late 2022, going as far as to suggest that Ukraine should

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to Russia to prevent a nuclear war.

Several years later, Musk has thrown his full weight behind the reelection of former president Donald Trump. The former reality TV host’s

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with ****** is well-established. Musk’s social media network X-formerly-

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also

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between ************* pundit Tucker Carlson and ******.

In short, Musk’s ties with the US’ largest adversaries have clearly rattled NASA’s leadership.

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