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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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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Plus without SpaceX, our only ride to space would be the Soyuz

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ariane would like a word.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm not aware of any human rated spacecraft being launched with Ariane. I know there were some concepts for at least Ariane 5, and it would be cool for Europe to be independent on this.

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