4 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Trump Order Seeks To Cut Regulations for Space Industry
President Trump issued an executive order that aims to speed up rocket launching and opens the door to more spaceport developments.
Many space industry executives have been frustrated by the pace regulators have moved to permit launches and other space operations, and had anticipated the Trump administration would try to address the issue. Those expectations were fed by the alliance between the president and Elon Musk, chief executive of SpaceX who advised Trump before their high-profile split.
