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Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat (www.cnbc.com)
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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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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (22 children)

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

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (12 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

    Edit: I deleted my other post because I was mostly wrong. I didn't realize New Glen has actually launched once. Good on them for achieving orbit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They had way more government funding to get to the point Blue Origin is at. I'm not just talking about right now. That would be silly.

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  • [+] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Have they even achieved orbit?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Not yet

    Edit: Turns out I was wrong. Their craft that was supposed to make it to orbit made it on its first attempt. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-launches-massive-new-glenn-rocket-into-orbit-on-1st-flight-video

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's a load bearing "yet"

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