NASA boss Bill Nelson, is pushing for an investigation into The Wall Street Journal’s bombshell report about “secret” talks between tech mogul Elon Musk and Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin.
Nelson kicked off by asserting NASA’s “non-partisan political” stance and giving kudos to SpaceX for its stellar spacecraft work.
Then, he suggested, “I don’t know that that story is true,” he said at a Semafor-hosted conference. “I think it should be investigated.”
“If the story’s true, that there have been multiple conversations between Elon Musk and the president of Russia, then I think that would be concerning, particularly for NASA, the Department of Defense, for some of the intelligence agencies,” he added.
The report from The Wall Street Journal claims Musk and Putin have been chatting since late 2022, with “several current and former U.S., European, and Russian officials” spilling tea on their discussions about “personal topics, business, and geopolitical tensions.”
Allegedly, Putin once asked Musk to keep Starlink internet service offline over Taiwan as a favor for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, according to those in the know.
Meanwhile, NASA’s Crew-8 mission members returned to Earth Friday with the aide of Musk’s company, wrapping up a nearly eight-month mission after their trip from the International Space Station was extended multiple times.
They returned in the SpaceX Dragon capsule, which landed in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida, early Friday morning around 3:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
The capsule’s fiery descent took it over southern Mexico before it finally slowed to just 16 mph with the help of parachutes and splashed down in the Gulf.
The capsule, named Endeavour, has set a new record, having spent 701 days in orbit. The mission marks the longest duration spent by any human crew aboard the spacecraft, totaling 235 days.
The Crew-8 consisted of three NASA astronauts—commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, and mission specialist Jeanette Epps—alongside Alexander Grebenkin from Russia’s Roscosmos.
After splashdown, the crew was promptly taken to a hospital in Pensacola for standard post-flight medical examinations and an “additional evaluation.”
The agency confirmed that one astronaut faced a “medical issue” once back on land. This individual remains under observation at the hospital for precautionary reasons.
The other three have already arrived at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA has opted not to disclose the identity of the astronaut staying behind to respect their medical privacy.
Meanwhile, former President Trump met with bosses at the Jeff Bezos-owned SpaceX rival, Blue Origin, after his speech in Austin, Texas on Friday.
Trump had a brief meeting with CEO David Limp and vice president of government relations Megan Mitchell, according to The Associated Press (AP).
Nelson is a democrat and is partisan.
So do you post comments or what?
Well that posted I guess no one els ever makes a comment it seems like you just want people to post so you can track their ideologies.
This statement by Nelson “Nelson kicked off by asserting NASA’s “non-partisan political” stance and giving kudos to SpaceX for its stellar spacecraft work” shows how really “stupid” Nelson is. NASA has been manipulating just about every aspect of the “global warming” or “climate change” reporting for decades. The weather related data allegedly collected by NASA has been fraudulent since Al Gore made climate a huge money making issue for himself and his crony’s. Putting weather collection data station deliberately close to places close to sources of high temperatures that were pointed out by many well known meteorologists is just the “tip of the fraud iceberg” that NASA has promoted. The sites were reported twenty years ago as highly suspicious and twenty years later they are still in the same locations. If they moved them as is the responsible thing to do that would totally upset the liberal narrative that NASA oozes. The grant money for NASA scientists MUST never be put in jeopardy by accurate facts.