There is a gradual rebuild of the US Space Agency NASA, reports Wall Street Journal Who talked to a number of people close to Musk and the Trump administration. According to the newspaper, it should have started after a phone call between tech billionaire Elon Musk and the astronaut and SpaceX employee Jared Isaacman.
According to sources, the conversation was about Musk’s and Isaacman’s common goals – to take man to Mars. Among other things, Musk should have expressed an ambition to make NASA big again.
Shortly after the conversation, Isaacman was nominated as new head of NASA by US President Donald Trump.
Concerns about layoffs
Since Donald Trump is sworn in as president, the Musk-led unofficial authority Dogge has worked to cut costs within the US state apparatus.
According to analysts, it is now within NASA that the biggest change can take place. By allocating about financial funds and installing loyal employees, Musk hopes to control NASA’s goals towards his own.
These include, among other things, a re -prioritization within the Nasa program Artemis, which has a long -term goal to investigate the moon and possibly Mars. Musk has previously criticized Artemis on the social media platform X and writes that “something completely new is needed”.
Among the employees at NASA, a concern is now spreading for extensive redundancies, which can have major consequences for the work at the space authority.
Several years of development in the cast
According to WSJ, the White House plans a proposal to close investments within Artemis. If the proposal goes through, it can release several billion dollars, which can instead go to projects to take man to Mars – something that would benefit SpaceX and in turn Musk which owns over 40 percent of the company.
In whole or partially closing Artemis would mean that several years of development is going on, but according to advocates it is just as good as the project is expensive and takes longer than planned.
At the same time, Artemi’s powerful advocates in Congress, and a cross -border group of senators have recently presented legislative proposals that require NASA and its leaders to continue to support the existing program.