Since the acquisition of social media Twitter in October last year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has spent most of his time at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. This makes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) very worried about whether Elon Musk can take care of so many companies. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson revealed on Sunday local time that he had asked SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell (Gwynne Shotwell) whether Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter would affect SpaceX’s operations and the company’s relationship with NASA promise.
Nelson reportedly asked Shotwell in early December: “Tell me, honestly, whether Elon Musk’s focus on Twitter will affect SpaceX.”
Nelson revealed that Shotwell assured him that Elon Musk had “nothing to worry about.”
“I hugged her with a smile on my face because I knew she was running that company,” Nelson said. “She was running SpaceX.”
Currently, SpaceX is working with NASA on the Artemis moon landing program, with the goal of returning astronauts to the moon by the end of 2025. NASA has provided billions of dollars in funding for SpaceX, the company led by Elon Musk.
The NASA chief isn’t the first to express concern about Elon Musk’s devotion to Twitter. Last week, reports emerged that Tesla investors were concerned that Elon Musk had “dumped” the electric carmaker in favor of Twitter.
In the past few months, Elon Musk has spent most of his time at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, even sleeping in the office. He also reportedly brought in engineers from other companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, to help revamp Twitter.
“I continue to oversee Tesla and SpaceX, but the teams there are so good that I usually don’t have to do much,” Elon Musk tweeted last Thursday.
Elon Musk’s current Twitter input is largely focused on product updates and the release of so-called “Twitter internal documents.”
Elon Musk said last month that he was looking for someone else to run Twitter, with plans to eventually reduce the amount of time he spends at the company.
