Garver said he had to deal not only with sexism from his colleagues, but also with the current NASA administratorNelson“passive-aggressive” behavior. She claimed that the core conflict between the two was between the rocket company SpaceX and the company’s controversial CEO ElonMusk(Elon Musk)。
Garver said she spearheaded NASA’s public-private partnership with SpaceX, aka commercialastronautplan this project. The move annoyed many NASA insiders, including Nielsen, she said.
Garver wrote that when Nelson was a U.S. senator, a group led by him “opposed” the commercial astronaut program. Garver recalled that in a private meeting after Musk publicly announced he could help NASA, Nielsen, then a senator, “shouted at me, ‘Get your son Elon in line.'”
According to Garver, although Nelson has now changed his mind and “does his best to promote the commercial astronaut program,” he hasn’t always been a big fan of Musk and SpaceX.
It was previously reported that many people inside NASA despised SpaceX, and Musk’s eccentric behavior and arrogant style also played a role in it.
Garver, who is clearly a fan of SpaceX and Musk, wrote that his “story is hard to separate from his own.”
“Without him and SpaceX, I couldn’t have made such a big transition at NASA,” Garver said. (Chen Chen)
