Biden Admin to SpaceX: Drop Dead!

By Stephen Green

It isn’t a joke whenever I say that the new space race is Elon Musk versus the rest of the world, and I’m not joking now when I tell you that his company’s biggest competitor isn’t China — and it certainly isn’t Russia — but the Biden-Harris FAA.

SpaceX’s Starship promises to revolutionize spaceflight by reducing launch costs by two orders of magnitude — that’s a 99% savings — and vastly expanding current limits on the size and mass of what can be lifted into orbit and deep space.

If SpaceX can get permission to perform the necessary flight tests, that is — and the FAA is dragging its feet.

“Starships are meant to fly,” the company reminded the Biden administration in a lengthy statement released on Tuesday. “We recently received a launch license date estimate of late November from the FAA, the government agency responsible for licensing Starship flight tests. This is a more than two-month delay to the previously communicated date of mid-September. This delay was not based on a new safety concern, but instead driven by superfluous environmental analysis.”

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