This concern was heightened late Friday when Petro announced that a longtime SpaceX employee named Michael Altenhofen had joined the agency "as a senior advisor to the NASA Administrator."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/as-nasa-flies-into-turbulence-the-agency-could-use-a-steady-hand/
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/as-nasa-flies-into-turbulence-the-agency-could-use-a-steady-hand/
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And I wouldn't want to be in Jared Isaacman's shoes, either.
I fully expect the worst - major functions of NASA outsourced to SpaceX, anything remotely related to science being gutted, Artemis progress thrown away for Mars delusions, black/women astronauts expelled, etc.