Lori Garver, former NASA Deputy Administrator, joins me to talk about the chaos of the last week: the withdraw of Jared Isaacman’s nomination for NASA Administrator, Starship Flight 9, and of course, the wild public breakup of Elon Musk and President Trump.
This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 33 executive producers—David, Donald, Matt, Frank, Better Every Day Studios, Warren, Bob, Russell, Pat from KC, Pat, Lee, Joel, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Ryan, Josh from Impulse, Joonas, Natasha Tsakos (pronounced Tszakos), Heiko, Will and Lars from Agile, Fred, Kris, Stealth Julian, Joakim (Jo-Kim), Theo and Violet, Jan, Steve, The Astrogators at SEE, and four anonymous—and hundreds of supporters.
Topics
- Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts - SpaceNews
- Isaacman: people with ‘axes to grind’ about Musk caused withdrawn NASA nomination - SpaceNews
- White House to withdraw Isaacman nomination to lead NASA - SpaceNews
- NASA Copes with Details of $6 Billion Budget Cut, Leadership Uncertainty – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- NASA withdraws support for conferences - SpaceNews
- Cruz seeks $10 billion for NASA programs in budget reconciliation bill - SpaceNews
- Starship breaks up on reentry after loss of attitude control - SpaceNews
- Status Update on ispace Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon | ispace
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