The White House just dropped a curveball in the space sector. After one Tesla exec publicly torched a cabinet pick as intellectually unfit, the administration pivoted hard—tapping someone from that same exec's inner circle to run NASA instead. Classic political chess move: turn your loudest critic into a stakeholder. The original nominee? Let's just say they won't be calculating rocket trajectories anytime soon. Meanwhile, the aerospace community's buzzing about whether this signals tighter alignment between federal space policy and private-sector moonshot ambitions. One thing's clear: when you've got rocket factories and satellite networks, your opinion on who steers government space programs suddenly carries serious weight.