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.
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      10 days ago

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

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        10 days 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.

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          9 days ago

          Right. They built their rockets on Amazon wage theft and stock profits. Totally different than stealing directly from tax payers.

          EDIT: Wage theft.