New: The president’s push to build Golden Dome quickly is giving SpaceX an edge. It’s already poised for a $2 billion windfall from one early effort to track missiles from space. The details w/ @micahmaidenberg.bsky.social:
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ICYMI: our report on the power struggle over who will run NASA. Behind the scenes, both Sean Duffy (Acting NASA Admin. & Transportation Sec.) and Jared Isaacman (the billionaire payments exec who has flown with SpaceX twice) have been jockeying to run the agency.

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“It’s time to be successful. The company needs it. The program needs it. NASA needs it."
Starship's next flight test tracking to Sunday evening -
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Trump’s nomination of Isaacman to run NASA marked a departure from the gov. officials or ex-politicians who have typical led it. He was also different from many in the administration: during an interview w/WSJ last Nov., Isaacman said he was a “hypermoderate.”
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Musk, NASA & Mars: the billionaire is positioned to speed up plans for a mission to the red planet, an effort that has animated him for decades. Big changes afoot for NASA, SpaceX & the space industry. New story for @wsj.com with colleagues, link in next post -

Two NASA astronauts stuck on the International Space Station since last summer are poised to return to Earth after SpaceX delivered a replacement crew to the facility.
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Isaacman and risk - The Thrill-Seeking Billionaire and SpaceX Astronaut Poised to Run NASA. New story about Jared Isaacman, tapped to run the U.S. space program under the Trump administration. www.wsj.com/business/nas...

“All of the things we want to do in the future rely on New Glenn.”

Blue Origin's New Glenn is launched for the first time, early Thursday

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