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SpaceX Accounts for 80% of FAA’s Space Workers’ Overtime
Employees work in a clean room on the Crew Dragon capsule at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
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US air safety regulators are working overtime to keep up with safety and launch license applications at Elon Musk’s SpaceX, the world’s most prolific rocket launch company.
“They get the majority of our resources,” Daniel Murray, an executive director at the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Office, told an aerospace summit in Washington on Wednesday. “80% of the overtime that we log, and this is hundreds of hours a month, goes to SpaceX,” he said, referring to his office specifically.