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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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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Do it, bring back NASA into full force and increase their budget.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I suspect Trump will more likely move more of the R&D under the auspices of the USSF (ie the Space Force). He can't claim to have "created" NASA, but the space force is his baby.

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