Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat (www.cnbc.com)

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Elon Musk said SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft “immediately” because of threats by Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
Musk’s announcement on his social media site X escalated a war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.
A SpaceX Dragon capsule brought two NASA astronauts back to Earth in March after they were stranded for months at the International Space Station by a Boeing Starliner capsule.

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[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 month ago

And this is why billionaires should not control vital resources

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

But they always do.

[-] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 19 points 1 month ago

It is the end of manned space flight for the USA. Thanks MAGAts.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Blue Origin will have us doing it again. They truly are the tortoise of the race.

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, let's get the other billionaire idiot on the payroll so he can get Katy Perry to the ISS.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Blue Origin has used FAR less government money than SpaceX. That's one of the reason they sell those trips. You have to pay for things somehow.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, SpaceX has a lot more government contacts, because you know, they have working orbital vehicles...

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Lol, they're the stuffed tortoise of the race.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Have they even achieved orbit?

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not yet

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That's a load bearing "yet"

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

[-] 0ndead@infosec.pub 8 points 1 month ago

By launching it?

[-] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Is he promising to leave the former US?

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

I think I’d laugh myself unconscious if Trump nationalized Space X.

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