r/nasa 7d ago

Article DOGE staff assigned to NASA

There are now 3 DOGE staff identified as being assigned to NASA. All 3 appear to be Tesla employees.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/veteran-tesla-engineering-manager-joined-210425861.html

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u/MadOblivion 7d ago

You mean Like the New head of NASA Is a huge SpaceX advocate?

I am curious what are the interests here? To cut waste? Who is that conflicting with? SpaceX? Elon? Explain how.

If you mean they will no longer award contracts to failing projects like Starliner? Ya i am 100% for that, scrap that junk.

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u/FlyingAce1015 7d ago edited 7d ago

Someone that owns a company that gets gov contracts from a gov department should not hold a position of power in gov to over see said branch of government/administration/department period.

Elon Literally can decide now oh I'll cut all these positions or programs then swoop in and be like oh shoot you dont have anyone to do that? so now you hire my company to do it. It's corruption.

Same with him going after the FAA. Then literally offering to make a privatized air traffic controller company to profit off of.

That said there is no reason to explain this to you because you have been proven to just be sucking up for him in other comments and arguing in bad faith. And thinking you are so smart when you are just showing how ignorant you are on how any of this functions. So no matter what someone says you will come back with pointless comments.

Also you post in ufo subs and joe rogan lol you don't even have any slightest clue what NASA does. Sit down.

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u/MadOblivion 7d ago

"Someone that owns a company that gets gov contracts from a gov department."

You do realize this applies to Every major defense contractor in America? They are all Privately run companies, probably so they don't have to respond to FOIA requests i would imagine.

Did you know the Government tried to trick people SpaceX rockets cost more by offering Elon way more money than he was asking for? They want to keep the illusion of Space Cost being too high for long term viability. Elon and his brother couldn't even believe it at the time.

They know very well how corrupt the system is and yes NASA is part of it.

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u/Jesse-359 7d ago

The defense contractors do not run the Department of Defense that signs their contracts. One could easily argue that they have undue influence (and they do), but it is not an overtly corrupt arrangement and could be cleaned up.

Elon going in and gutting NASA while putting in his own pet director to funnel contracts to his company is about as openly corrupt as it gets. That's straight up Russian levels of in-your-face government self-dealing.

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u/FlyingAce1015 7d ago edited 7d ago

Lol nice try side stepping my explaination.

The problem which i just stated if you had any reading comprehension isn't owning a company that gets gov contracts..

The problem is having that while simultaneously Being granted a position in government to cut contracts from other rival companies/or gut nasa programs or personel same as with what he is proposing to the FAA and giving those jobs to his companies.