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posted by chromas on Friday March 08 2019, @05:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the didn't-inhale dept.

[...] Musk has a top-secret level clearance because the company he founded and leads is certified to launch military spy satellites for the US government.

The review underscores the ramifications of Musk's appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in September, where he took a puff of a marijuana blunt during the livestream. Musk's appearance on the program didn't sit well with NASA's top officials, who earlier this month ordered a review of the workplace cultures of SpaceX and Boeing.

NASA's contracts with the aerospace companies -- worth a combined total of $6.8 billion -- require both companies "maintain a program for achieving a drug-and alcohol-free workforce."


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 09 2019, @03:42AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday March 09 2019, @03:42AM (#811923) Homepage

    That's pretty much how foreign companies in the U.S. can produce classified tech here without having access to the classified information. It's called an SSA (Special Security Agreement) and allows them to be foreign-owned and let them run the business-end of things while the classified sections here work on the nuts and bolts and then send the home office their accounting credits.