This week, as Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” was attempting to further gut the US government, his rocket company SpaceX was cementing a NASA contract adding millions of dollars to its already massive deal with the space agency.
As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was reportedly canceling Department of Education contracts in the name of frugality, Musk’s rocket company was this week cementing a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract adding millions of dollars to its already massive deal with the space agency, according to government documents reviewed by the Lever.
The new “supplemental” contract dated February 10 adds $7.5 million to SpaceX’s NASA work, according to Federal Procurement Data System records. The government has already committed $3.9 billion to SpaceX as part of its NASA deal, which is projected to cost up to $4.4 billion by the middle of President Donald Trump’s term.
The new agreement says it is for “work required for the design, development, manufacture, test, launch, demonstration, and engineering support of the Human Landing System (HLS) Integrated Lander.”
Musk’s DOGE has not announced it is targeting or reviewing NASA contracts for cuts.
Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator. Isaacman is a billionaire Musk associate who runs a payment processing company that is regulated by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Musk has been trying to dismantle.
Last month, Isaacman’s company was fined by federal securities regulators for not properly disclosing millions of dollars of payments to company executives’ relatives.
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