“Hmmm... sounds like the “Federal regulators” are deliberately slow-walking this one. But why?”
Numerous reasons. Musk is NOT woke. Musk’s businesses are NOT union shops. Musk has openly criticized this administration and its woke policies.
Musk pulled Tesla’s HQ out of California and openly criticized the state’s anti-business environment.
SpaceX is humiliating well-established, well-connected UNION companies, Boeing and L-M who were awarded development money for their failing space program which dwarfed the development money given to SpaceX, etc...
Thanks for the good reasons. Now the slow walking makes more sense.
They keep it up, I bet another country would be glad to serve as a launch site.