SpaceX Technician Says Concerns About Tests Got Him Fired
- Ex-employee says management told workers to ignore protocols
- Company tells jury he was terminated for poor job performance
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A former Space Exploration Technologies Corp. technician was fired for complaining to management that rocket-building test protocols weren’t followed and results were falsified, jeopardizing the safety of eventual manned trips into orbit, his lawyer told a jury.
Jason Blasdell claims he took his concerns as high as SpaceX founder and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk in the months before he was terminated in 2014, purportedly for being “disruptive."