SpaceX CEO Musk comes to Washington to lobby for Obama’s NASA strategy, Washington Post
“Our influence is a tiny fraction of any one of the giant contractors,” he said. “We have one guy and an intern doing our lobbying in D.C. – they have whole buildings full of lobbyists.” Musk is exaggerating, but only a bit. SpaceX has 15 lobbyists registered on its behalf, according to disclosure forms. By comparison, space giants Boeing and Lockheed Martin together employ more than 220 lobbyists and spent a combined $16 million on lobbying in the first six months of this year, the data show.”
SpaceX Targets November for Dragon Demo Flight, SpaceNews
“Hawthorne, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has shifted a planned Oct. 23 launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo vessel to November.”
