Ron DeSantis signed a bill that shields SpaceX and other aerospace companies from legal liabilities, the day after Elon Musk hosted the launch of his 2024 campaign bid.

After successfully launching 22 Starlink satellites out of Florida at 2:00 a.m., SpaceX prepared a Falcon 9 rocket to launch another round of 16 OneWeb and 5 Iridium satellites from California. But at T-55 seconds, the launch was aborted.

An unmanned SpaceX rocket exploded last month, resulting in catastrophic environmental damage. T ruthout Newly announced GOP presidential candidate and Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) signed a bill into state law on Thursday that protects private companies that orchestrate spaceflights from liability lawsuits if a crew member gets injured or dies as a result of an accident.

While shaky and skewered by critics, Twitter’s forum for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to announce his presidential run nevertheless underscored the platform’s unmistakable shift to the right under new owner Elon Musk.

That was the case this week when Governor Ron DeSantis took to Twitter Spaces to announce his presidential run. Initially, about 500,000 had connected, but after about 21 minutes, the server crashed and the Space had to be restarted.

Elon Musk (left) attempted to remedy his disastrous Twitter Spaces hosting of Ron DeSantis' (right) presidential campaign launch by claiming he set a fundraising 'record', before he was corrected.