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Elon Musk is CEO of Boeing competitor SpaceX.
  • Elon Musk criticized Boeing on X ahead of its first astronaut flight to space.
  • SpaceX beat Boeing to the punch, flying NASA astronauts to the space station four years ago for cheaper.
  • Musk said Boeing has "too many non-technical managers."

Elon Musk soured the day of Boeing's first astronaut flight to space by lobbing criticism at the company on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.