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In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees (arstechnica.com)

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[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (6 children)

... I mean that would've been the clearest conflict of interest you could've possibly summoned.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

SpaceX gets most of their money from NASA contracts no?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think that is probably the actual reason. Musk probably fired most of NASA, and then realized that the absolute carnage would in this case impact him personally, and it suddenly became an important issue and he needs to have them all rehired so that they can keep paying him his contracts. He still doesn't give a shit about other people's contracts / medications / intelligence operations / statutorily enforced payments / whatever.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

The problem is that so many other companies also get their money from NASA. Cutting out NASA makes it a clear pipe from gov to spaceX.

Of course, so many other projects NASA is running will also just die, but those don't even help Elon anyway so they're pointless. Or so.

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