Regardless of the senators' motivations, asking the government to not trust self-provided analyses by private companies on matters of national security and expensive publicly-funded science projects( like NASA's) seems reasonable.
This is an affirmatively misleading title, and not the title of the original article.
The members of Congress have simply inquired as to the sufficiency of the FAA, Air Force, and NASA investigations of rocket explosions that have damaged quite a bit of property paid for by tax money.
Better to read the original letter:
https://www.scribd.com/document/325845340/Congressional-Lett...
I thought it odd that a Republican senator is pushing for government oversight of a private company, given that his party is the anti-regulation party.
Than I read this:
The senator now faces a heated 2016 reelection campaign in his district — the home of SpaceX's biggest competitor, United Launch Alliance (ULA), which is itself a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Records show that Coffman has publicly accepted more than $51,000 in campaign donations from Lockheed Martin during his career.
Now it makes sense.