Musk prepares “assault” to NASA to fulfill his big dream

Elon Musk’s great “mission” is to take control of NASA to focus the strategy of spatial exploration on Mars, abandoning the planned plans to return to the moon.

Elon Musk invested more than $ 250 million in the campaign to elect Donald Trump as president of the US. An absurd amount that is not that significant for the.

But neither musk has enough money to “pay” his Megalophon Plan to arrive in Marsand to install a human colony on the red planet.

For this, the tycoon intends to count on the role of and has as great plan take control From the National Agency of Aeronautics and the US Space, as the US newspaper (WSJ) ensures.

Citing “people informed about the conversation”, the newspaper guarantees that at the end of last year, Musk called Friend Jared Isaacman Asking him he would accept to be NASA’s “boss”.

One of the first steps in the sense of “Control” NASA You can go through Jared Isaacman’s appointment to the agency’s lead in the coming months, WSJ said.

Isaacman is an US businessman, pilot and commercial astronaut, and besides an investor at, has also traveled to the space in the musk company’s rockets.

In recent months, NASA has been one of the government agencies affected by Mass Disposalin the context of the cuts carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), which Musk is supervising.

But the “Assault” to NASA It has already begun with the appointment of important Spacex employees to agency organs. One of these cases is that of Michael Altenhofen, an aerospace engineer and important executive of the musk company, who was designated as NASA’s senior consultant last January.

Trump can cancel NASA’s plans for the moon

Musk’s intention is to accelerate plans for a trip to the red planet. WSJ ensures that the tycoon is doing everything within their power to Press NASA to give up space missions planned to the moonto completely focus on.

Sources contacted by the WSJ say that Trump’s administration is considering canceling NASA’s Space Launching System (SLS), a giant rocket that is being designed to Send astronauts to the moon before the end of this decade.

The agency is preparing its next manned mission around the moon to be launched in about a year.

Cut this investment to concentrate NASA’s efforts on Mars’s spatial exploration would be a almost shocking twist – Especially that it would be a clear Favoriness to Musk and Space Xwhich is already the main private supplier of the US Aerospace Agency.

Spacex is already conceiving a large rocket to call. With NASA redirecting its bet to Mars, it would be the company of Musk the main beneficiary, which would raise many questions in terms of conflict of interest.

FAA investigates starship explosions and is in the sight of doge

Musk’s doge also has the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which is responsible for ensuring that Starship releases follow air safety laws.

Starship’s latest releases have not been in the best way. The last launch, last March, ended in explosion Shortly after take -off, having been the second failure this year. Several motors failed during the flightwhich motivated the loss of attitude control and the consequent breaking of the ship.

In January, another Starship release was also shortly after take -off.

FAA leads investigations to these incidents to determine the causes of explosions and implement corrective actions. This process is essential to ensure public safety and avoid similar failures in future launches.

Musk wants to build “self-sustainable colony” on Mars

Musk has used its social networks, X, former Twitter, to nasaconsidering that the agency has been “inefficient” and has not presented “results”.

Last January, the Magnata published in X that “The moon is a distraction”. “Let’s go directly to Mars,” he said, stressing the goal of “building a Self-sustainable colony at Mars“.

No, we’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction.

Mass to orbit is the key metric, thereafter mass to Mars surface. The former needs to be in the megaton to orbit per year range to build a self-sustaining colony on Mars.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)

A month later, Musk published in what was “time to start preparations” International Space Station dismantlingconsidering that it has already “fulfilled its purpose” and has “very little incremental utility”.

During the inauguration, Trump also pointed to Marsnoting that its administration “would launch American astronauts to plant the United States flag” on the red planet.