Those who don’t have a passion for America’s human spaceflight program — and all should, as it is the key to our future national and economic security — may not be aware of the feud between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and acting NASA administrator and current Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

In full disclosure, I know both Duffy and his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy. I was interviewed by both on their podcast regarding my book “The 56,” and have sat down with Sean Duffy over coffee as well. I believe him not only to be an honorable man but also one who is fully dedicated to President Trump’s commitment to return American astronauts to the moon before Chinese astronauts get there.

Beyond that, I believe Elon Musk to be a once-in-a-century mind who has the capability to lift the U.S. and humanity to unimagined and massively beneficial heights. No matter if anyone in the U.S. government cares to admit it or not, SpaceX is the U.S. manned space program; Musk has earned the right to sit at the head of the table when it comes to our space program.

Any squabbling between Musk and Duffy could prove detrimental to the goals outlined by Trump.

NASA has been a beleaguered agency for decades. Since its “glory days” of the 1960s, when it truly did pull off the “impossible” by landing Americans on the moon, NASA has encountered — and been marginalized by — two major issues.

The first is that........

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