The FAA is a sister agency to another well known federal bureaucracy whose safety record could also be called into question, yet they’ve never been fined. Starting with the Apollo 1 fire through the latest boondoggle of having to abandon astronauts on the space station, NASA (whom I wholeheartedly support) still continues receives its largesse from the taxpayer, all without the specter of financial pain being levied against them. The FAA proposing to fine Space X smacks of protectionism at best and a targeted “assassination” of its creator at worst.
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