The highly public feud between billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and Acting Nasa Administrator Sean Duffy has escalated into a defining policy battle over the future structure of the American space program, driving plans to integrate key Nasa functions into the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

This structural realignment is rooted not merely in personal antagonism, but in the necessity of managing increasingly strained national airspace and the administration’s focus on geopolitical lunar dominance.

The antagonism reached a peak when Duffy, who also serves as Transportation Secretary, publicly stated that Musk’s SpaceX was "behind schedule" on the critical Artemis III project, designed to land U.S. astronauts back on the Moon.

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