[Houserino]

Pretty sure the FAA is slowing things down to punish Elon for not cozying up to biden and california.

[vpintheak]

You’re on to something there. The Fedgov is nothing, if not punitive.

[V_TWIN]

Definitely brandon payback.

[BiglyCommentary]

So when did the FAA morph into the EPA?

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly.

That will cease when Trump returns to the White House.

Congress may be able to end it before that.

This is nonsense and everyone knows it.

[M Kehoe]

I thought the EPA was responsible for the environment.

So now the FAA is responsible for the environment?

Next thing you know, the FBI will be responsible for the environment.

5.56mm

[windsorknot]

Reminds me when the FAA grounded Fox News drones at the Texas border.

[packagingguy]

Exactly my thoughts. Elon is not liked by the government for some reason. He has Tweeted about the idiotic level of government spending, pointing out it is not sustainable. But there has to be more to it than that.

[Robert A Cook PE]

No shiitte, Shirley, Surely the FAA “environmental concerns” can be extended to anything in the air, right? Not airplanes and flight plans. It is simple harassment.

[tennmountainman]

No doubt.

[ifinnegan]

Musk has not been a good boy says the deep state.

[Colo9250]

Move it to Florida where he already has the ok. He should have had his Starship there from the start.

[Gaffer]

Gee. A government agency actually extending the review of a proposed program/product because of its potential impact on the environment. What about the 'environment' of the human body? And the millions of people a super-rushed 'review' has allowed something to be inserted into the collective 'environment?' What say you, FDA? CDC?

[Irenic]

No good intention goes unpunished...

[PIF]

Pretty sure the FAA is slowing things down to punish Elon for not cozying up to biden and california.
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Elon said in his speech the other day - if the FAA keeps screwing with the Texas permit he’ll more everything to the Cape where he has an already built site and launch permit.

[Terry L Smith]

oh really?????

must be ‘nasa’ has a launch scheduled of some woo woo nature, that yhey do not want the highly successful and private launch company to put ztank on, again.
The JWST should have been built by nasa, but I’m glad it wasn’t, for one reason ...so far everything is working better yhan projected, to this moment in time. NASA launched Hubble, with a bad mirror.

[DiogenesLamp]

FAA extends environmental review of SpaceX program in Texas

Who benefits? Cui bono?

SpaceX competitors benefit. Governing agencies are a tool for the connected to damage their financial enemies.

This is what happened in the Civil War. The South posed an enormous economic threat to the existing monied elite, and they used the government to destroy the threat.

Then they spread propaganda claiming they did it for moral reasons.

[backwoods-engineer]

And they will keep extending it ad infinitum. Elon Musk has been a bad comrade and criticized the powers-that-be. Make no mistake: the elite have the power to ruin ANY business, even SpaceX.

[minnesota_bound]

NASA never could do this landing of 3 boosters https://youtu.be/mY-fSnKTLqw?t=105 so the reason is probably because of politics.

[Sequoyah101]

This is a political attack and nothing else.