13 hours ago · The Musk-Whitaker feud goes back to two SpaceX launches in the summer of 2023—before Whitaker had even taken over at the FAA. In a Sept. 17, 2024, post on its website, the FAA said that in June ...

12 hours ago · Mike Whitaker, the previous FAA administrator, stepped down on Inauguration Day after just over a year on the job. He’d repeatedly clashed with Elon Musk — now in charge of a group tasked with slashing the government’s headcount by President Donald Trump — over safety issues at his space company, SpaceX.

1 day ago · Elon Musk pushed Federal Aviation Administration Chief Michael Whitaker from his post just 10 days before the deadly plane and Black Hawk helicopter crash over Washington, DC. Musk, a close Trump ...

1 day ago · Elon Musk's longstanding FAA feud is being floated as a reason for agency deficiencies leading up to crash. Credit: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg via Getty Images In the late evening hours of Jan. 29 ...

1 day ago · Elon Musk, a close Trump advisor who also heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had called for Whitaker’s ouster after the erstwhile FAA chief proposed more than $600,000 in fines ...

Nov 20, 2024 · The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to investigate what went wrong on their respective mega-rocket test flights this week. The...

Sep 20, 2024 · On Tuesday, the FAA announced its proposed penalties against SpaceX for "allegedly failing to follow its license requirements during two launches in 2023." The agency cited two specific incidents.

Nov 18, 2024 · Frustrated, then-FAA Administrator Steve Dickson, who had been nominated during Trump’s first term, called Musk in March 2021 to reprimand him during what the FAA official said was a...

Sep 25, 2024 · In addition to the letter, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said in a post on X, the social media company he owns, that his company intendeds to sue the FAA for "regulatory overreach."

Sep 26, 2024 · The clash between SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration escalated this week, with Elon Musk calling for the head of the federal regulator to resign after he defended the FAA's...