Elon Musk introduced e-commerce mogul Yusaku Maezawa at a news conference Monday in California. The Japanese billionaire, who will be the first paying passenger for SpaceX’s planned 2023 trip around the moon, said up to eight artists will join him. Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters (Originally published Sept. 18, 2018)An engineer at an upstate New York company who was responsible for ensuring the quality of parts for Elon Musk’s space venture has been charged with falsifying inspection reports. James Smalley, who worked as a quality-assurance engineer at PMI Industries LLC in Rochester, is accused of forging inspectors’ signatures on at least 38 source inspection reports for space-vehicle parts purchased by Mr. Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 23, 2019 01:48 UTC