After SpaceX completed its historic private spaceflight on Saturday, CEO Elon Musk took a potshot with President Joe Biden, who has not yet mentioned the performance of the company and private flight crew.
“The U.S. president admits four latest American astronauts who helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for St. Jude,” said one of Musk’s 60 million followers on Twitter, a social networking platform. I even refused. What is your theory of why? What? “
Musk replied, “He is still asleep.”
As CNBC previously reported, SpaceX returned the Crew Dragon spacecraft from orbit safely yesterday. After spending three days in space, Capsule carried four members of the Inspiration 4 mission to Earth.
One of the main goals of the Inspiration4 mission was to raise $ 200 million for the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Raised $ 160.2 million by Saturday. After Inspiration4 splashed down, Musk personally promised to donate $ 50 million, boosting the total campaign to $ 210 million.
The White House and SpaceX did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
NASA’s top executives congratulated Mask and SpaceX on the Inspiration 4 mission. SpaceX’s competitors have acknowledged that, with praise from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin, and fellow Mask rivals Jeff Bezos shared on social media.
This marked the first private SpaceX space flight by a non-professional crew. In addition, the mission included the first black woman to pilot a spacecraft, the youngest American to ever become an astronaut, and the first to fly in space with a prosthetic limb. rice field.
Musk recently said he “wants to get away from politics,” but his quibble on Sunday showed his willingness to pierce the Democratic president and repeat right-wing taunts about Biden.
During the 2020 campaign, former President Donald Trump frequently insulted then-candidate Biden by calling him “Sleepy Joe.”
More recently, Trump sent Biden’s ironic wishes prior to the June summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Good luck to Biden in dealing with President Putin. Don’t sleep during the meeting. I give my heartfelt respect to him,” he said in an email statement at the time.
SpaceX usually enjoys a good relationship with the federal government. For example, it won a $ 2.89 billion contract to build NASA’s next crew member’s lunar lander, beating Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Leidos’ subsidiary Dynetics. SpaceX has sent 10 astronauts to the ISS so far.
However, SpaceX is under investigation by the Justice Department after being accused of discriminating against job seekers based on citizenship status. This is an investigation that began during the Trump administration.
In addition to his responsibilities at SpaceX, Musk is also the CEO of electric car maker Tesla. (Tesla is also a SpaceX supplier.)
In that position, he recently lamented the Biden administration’s proposal to allocate an additional $ 4,500 incentive to certain new small electric passenger car buyers. One provision of the proposal is that electric vehicles should be domestically made by the union.
The company operates a battery plant in Nevada, an auto assembly plant in California, and is building another plant outside Austin, Texas, but Tesla is the only major unintegrated production here. American car maker.
“This was written by a Ford / UAW lobbyist while manufacturing an electric car in Mexico. It’s not clear how this will help American taxpayers,” Musk said on Twitter on September 12. No, “he said.
In Cars.com’s 2021 annual American Made Index, Tesla’s popular Model 3 electric sedan outperformed its crossover model Y in third place.
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