Elon Musk’s Mission to Take Over NASA—and Mars

Wall Street Journal: “It is at NASA where Musk is making the biggest shift in an agency’s priorities to align them with his own—both financially and personally.”

“He is working to recast its programs, reallocate federal spending and install loyalists to aid his decadeslong goal of sending people to Mars.”

“He has also worked to win backing from Trump by telling the president that getting people to Mars would shine his legacy as a ‘president of firsts.’”

“The ambition could have a potentially huge impact on SpaceX, which has emerged as the dominant space technology and operations company globally and is already one of NASA’s biggest contractors.”