Musk In Trump’s Inner Circle Presents Rare Opportunity For SpaceX

Elon Musk and President-elect Donald Trump

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX to colonize Mars, has the ear of President-elect Donald Trump.

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The U.S. Space Agency likes to point out that anyone born since Nov. 2, 2000, when the first crew arrived at the International Space Station, has never spent a day without people living in space. But of late, 66-year-old NASA has been less articulate about why that is important, especially as SpaceX...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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