
SpaceX Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk criticised the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for charging SpaceX while neglecting Boeing Starliner’s extremely serious issues.
FAA penalised $633,009 on SpaceX for licensing violations during two separate launches back in 2023, including the Pasifik Satelit Nusantara PSN SATRIA mission.
Musk has strongly condemned the FAA’s focus and called it "petty matters” while seemingly ignoring Boeing’s failure to safely return the stranded astronauts at ISS to Earth.
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Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Musk highlighted NASA’s latest plan to extend the return of the stranded astronauts because of a technical issue in Boeing’s spacecraft till February 2025 with Hague and Gorbunov on SpaceX Dragon.
Musk stated: "This is deeply wrong and puts human lives at risk,” "NASA deemed the Boeing capsule unsafe for astronaut return, yet the FAA is fining SpaceX over trivialities."
FAA further advocated, as Chief Counsel Marc Nichols said that "safety drives everything we do at the FAA," and if any organisation will ever fail to meet safety expectations will certainly undergo its consequences.
Back in 2023, SpaceX experienced a $175,000 penalty, as it failed to submit the mandatory requirements before launching Starlink. But, Musk and SpaceX have argued over these allegations and blamed the FAA for exploiting its resources to target SpaceX over inconsequential problems.
Musk continues to defend his company pushes for liability from Boeing Starliner and keeps claiming that his company has been unreasonably targeted.