The FAA has proposed fines of $633,009 against SpaceX for violating regulations in launches of its Falcon 9 rocket. Musk criticized the FAA in a series of tweets, posting the FAA is “smothering the national space program,” and accused the agency of “improper, politically-motivated behavior.”

NAh-SA Now that president-elect Donald Trump has solidified his bromance with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the role of NASA could look dramatically different. And experts are terrified of the prospect of the United States government simply handing out even more major contracts to the mercurial CEO's space company.

"Bottom line, somebody in the Trump administration is going to say 'we want NASA and the private sector to collectively, as sort of a national space enterprise, we want them to go further, we want them to go faster, we want them to go more frequently, and we want them to go less expensively," Muncy said.

Elon Musk has reignited his long-running feud with Jeff Bezos by claiming the Amazon founder had urged people to sell stock in the Tesla boss’s firms because Donald Trump was going to lose.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk seem like best buds but according to insiders, the Tesla CEO might be getting on the president-elect's nerves already.