KEY POINTS
- 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.
Blue Origin will have us doing it again. They truly are the tortoise of the race.
Yeah, let’s get the other billionaire idiot on the payroll so he can get Katy Perry to the ISS.
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.
Right. They built their rockets on Amazon wage theft and stock profits. Totally different than stealing directly from tax payers.
EDIT: Wage theft.