The FAA has given its approval for the next flight of SpaceX’s Starship even while the investigation into the failed previous flight continues.

Everyone knows that the Federal Aviation Administration ... that regulates his rocket company: the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, known as AST. “People are nervous,” said a former ...

Three SpaceX workers hired as temporary FAA employees are barred from accessing the Office of Commercial Space Transportation ... the prohibition on accessing AST systems, the waivers say ...

SpaceX is directly regulated by a small FAA agency called the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, which since 1984 has licensed the launch of US space rockets. “The purpose is to ensure ...

Although the FAA has a separate department to handle rocket launch licensing, the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, it's difficult to ignore the optics of a conflict of interest.