The SpaceX Delay Was Not Political, Until It Was

I'm so disappointed that Mitch Miller's "Rocket to Uranus" record is a fake. cc: @tengrain via @Gizmodo pic.twitter.com/g6FuGbLBb3

— Frances Langum 🧶 (@bluegal) May 29, 2020

Failure to Launch:

The SpaceX failure to send Americans into space yesterday really isn’t a politics story… until it was. NYTimes (emphasis mine):

At Cape Canaveral, Trump’s Search for a Heroic Narrative Is Thwarted

“For President Trump, it was a chance to rewrite the story line from tragedy to triumph. Even as the United States reached the grim milestone on Wednesday of 100,000 dead from the coronavirus pandemic, he would help mark the nation’s trailblazing return to human spaceflight from American soil.

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