SpaceX is on the verge of completing their first mission to the moon. The company’s founder Elon Musk has been working hard on this project, and it looks like SpaceX will be launching in the next few days. It will be the first time that a private space company has sent something to the moon, and Joe Biden wanted to send his regards to Elon Musk and wish him luck with his first trip to the moon. Biden said he’s excited to see what happens with this groundbreaking mission to space and hopes that Musk gets some good pictures of what it looks like up there when he’s flying around with his rocket ship.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was gifted a well-wish from US President Joe Biden after expressing a super bad feeling about the economy and announcing a 10% cut in his workforce. The Washington Post reported that during a press briefing late Friday, when Biden was asked about Musk’s attitude on the economy, he replied, Best of luck on his trip to the Moon. Elon Musk, who has previously spoken out against Biden and tweeted “thanks Mr. President!” in recent days, has declared that he will be voting for the Republican party in the mid-term elections this November. NASA chose Elon Musk’s SpaceX to create the first commercially developed human lander to carry astronauts to the moon.
Specifically, a reporter asked about the Biden administration’s thoughts on Musk’s assessment of the economy in the context of a recent article that reported that Tesla would be freezing hiring and reducing its workforce by 10 percent in light of a pessimistic email from Musk to Tesla executives.
As an answer, Biden gave an answer listing a few companies, like Ford, Stellantis, and IBM, who are currently investing in the United States, before joking about a comment about going to the Moon. That’s where things get a little fishy, though. One key part of NASA’s Artemis mission, the space agency’s initiative to send the first woman and the first person of color to the lunar surface, is SpaceX’s trip to the Moon. Though the initiative existed under the Trump administration, it is one of the few programs that survived the change of power. But by the time it came to be 2021, Barack Obama’s Administration chose SpaceX to develop NASA’s next-generation space shuttle as a lunar lander. Obama’s agency awarded the company $2.9 billion to convert the company’s Super-Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle, codenamed Starship, into a vehicle that can transport humans to and from the lunar surface. It is as of now NASA’s intention to see the company conduct the first landing on the Moon as early as 2025.
Now that I think about it, plenty of U.S. presidents have made these sorts of mistakes too. President Trump, for example, never understood the Artemis program that his administration started either. It’s not only a show people from my community are keeping up with. During a recent episode of Jeopardy, contestants were provided with the $1,000 clue that read as follows none of the three contestants knew the answer to the question about the NASA program. The program is called Her Name is Apollo’s Sister.
