This beef goes back pretty far.
And at the heart of Garver and Nelson's bad blood, she alleges, is a familiar Futurism character: the ever-controversial Elon Musk and his rocket company, SpaceX.The former deputy administrator wrote that it was she who spearheaded NASA's public-private partnership with SpaceX,— a move that she says drew much internal ire, including from Nelson.
While he was still a US senator, Garver wrote, Nelson "led the opposition" to Commercial Crew. She recounted a private meeting in which the then-senator "shouted at me to 'get your boy Elon in line'" after Musk publicly claimed that he could help NASA. According to Garver, Nelson hasn't always been so fond of the billionaire and his private spaceflight company, though he now "recalls his record differently" and is "doing his best to wrap himself in the Commercial Crew flag."
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