SpaceX fires employees involved in letter criticism from Elon Musk, Company

SpaceX fired some employees involved in a letter criticizing CEO Elon Musk and the way the company uses internal rules, according to an email to employees of SpaceX’s president and people familiar with it.

Gwynne Shotwell, President of SpaceX, said that the company conducted an investigation and decided to lay off a number of employees who participated in the effort, according to the e-mail, a copy of which was seen by The Wall Street Journal. She said that the letter diverted employees’ attention from the company’s operations, and that she took a problem with how the note was circulated, the e-mail showed.