The President wants Elon to let Space X take the lead, while NASA tracks the spaceman in his Tesla. It makes total since with the track record of the President and his experience with undercutting construction cost of larger government affiliated companies while finishing ahead of schedule. Makes perfect since to allow Space X to partner NASA, reviving and shaking things up. There is now talk of allowing privatization for international space station missions. The administration’s budget proposal, released Monday, NASA would stop paying for the space station by 2025.The proposal has spending $150 million for 2019 to encourage development. Named Commercial LEO (Low-Earth Orbit) Development program. NASA is tasked with Horizons, a database run by the Solar System Dynamics group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory of which the red Tesla is now an entry. Horizons keep tabs on all the “bodies” of the solar system, including planets, moons, comets and asteroids. And there are about 150 man-made objects. They include exploration probes, such as Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, and some stray rocket parts left over from the Apollo moon missions.
