By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Acting NASA chief Sean Duffy and billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday traded barbs online over who should lead the space agency, a day after Duffy invited companies to compete with Musk’s SpaceX for a moon landing mission. The spat involving the U.S. space program and the SpaceX CEO, which have…
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris on June 16, 2023. Gonzalo Fuentes | Reuters SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticized acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy after he told media outlets this week that the billionaire’s space company is falling…
By David Shepardson and Doyinsola Oladipo ARLINGTON, Virginia/NEWARK (Reuters) -More than 13,000 U.S. air traffic controllers face rising stress and financial insecurity after Tuesday’s disbursement of what will be their last paycheck during the government shutdown, posing potential risks for air travel, the head of an employee union said. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said last…
Nasa has barred Chinese nationals on US visas from its facilities and networks, in the latest reflection of Washington’s mounting concern over Beijing’s progress in space and other advanced technologies. Although the space agency has typically restricted the employment of Chinese citizens, Chinese nationals on US visas without affiliations with Chinese government institutions or state-owned…
California, Washington and New Mexico could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if they continue failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday. An investigation launched after a deadly Florida crash involving a foreign truck driver who made an illegal U-turn on Aug. 12 found what Duffy called…
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy opened up on the latest episode of “Pod Force One” about his dispute with tech mogul Elon Musk over the billionaire’s push to slash headcount in his department. Duffy told The Post’s Miranda Devine in the new episode, out Wednesday, that he drew a red line at the prospect of firing…
NASA interim Administrator and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon, marking his first major policy move at NASA, Politico reported, citing internal documents. First reactor on the Moon by 2030 While NASA has long discussed the potential of nuclear energy on the lunar surface, Duffy’s…
President Donald Trump‘s administration pulled funding this week for a proposed high-speed magnetic levitation (Maglev) rail line connecting Washington D.C. and Baltimore. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told The Baltimore Sun on Friday that he couldn’t “in good conscience keep taxpayers on the hook” for the 26.6-mile line and cancelled over $26 million in funding. Newsweek…
China has pulled the wraps off its next-generation high-speed rail technology as the United States revokes federal funding for California’s high-speed rail project. China’s latest bullet train, the CR450, is undergoing final performance tests to prepare it for commercial operation trials at 400km/h (250mph), the official Science and Technology Daily reported on Monday. The team…
The Trump administration imposed new restrictions Saturday on flights from Mexico and threatened to end a longstanding partnership between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico in response to limits the Mexican government placed on passenger and cargo flights into Mexico City several years ago. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Mexico’s actions to force airlines to move…