Billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has escalated his feud with secretary of transport and interim NASA administrator Sean Duffy — by using a homophobic slur.

On Monday, Duffy appeared on Fox News to announce that he’s “in the process of opening” the space agency’s contract with SpaceX to deliver the first astronauts to the lunar surface in over half a century up to Musk’s competitors as its timeline continues to slip.

“I think we’ll see companies like Blue get involved, and maybe others,” Duffy said, referring to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. The Amazon cofounder happens to be one of Musk’s most reviled nemeses.

“We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually get us back to the Moon first,” Duffy said, saying that SpaceX is “behind schedu

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