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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] 211 points 1 week ago

And this is why billionaires should not control vital resources

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

But they always do.

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[-] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago

I think I’d laugh myself unconscious if Trump nationalized Space X.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago

I've been saying for years that it needs to be nationalized. And this is a really good time to do so; Elon is showing that him being in charge is a national security risk.

But Trump 100% doesn't have the guts to do it.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

That's the CO part of the TACO

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Trump would rather just give the ISS transport job back to his bff putin

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The IP trace shows it’s coming from the SMoon!!!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I doubt he could manage that.

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[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago

It is the end of manned space flight for the USA. Thanks MAGAts.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

That would be some fireworks

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Make 'em go, “Ah, ah, ah”

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Have they even achieved orbit?

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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 6 days 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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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

WE'RE NOT GOING TO MARS, YOU FUCKING NAZI ASSCLOWN. IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA.

NASA HAS LAUNCHED MANY ROCKETS FOR MANY DECADES. YOU BLOW SHIT UP BECAUSE YOU THINK THE RULES OF PHYSICS AND MECHANICS DONT APPLY TO YOU.

EVERYTHING WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU WERE DEPORTED TO A BLACK SITE.

FUCK YOU, ELMO

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Going to Mars is a fucking great idea.

And frankly SpaceXs rapid testing isn’t a big deal. It’s lead to decent results.

Musks sucks, but SpaceX isn’t why.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Deliberately burning up a viable planet and blowing all your resources to go to a dead planet is fucking stupid on every level and every metric. Absolutely indefensible.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Why do I feel like the entire government is based off a 2yo building a house of cards with his bully from school.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Because you have a firm grasp of reality?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Is he promising to leave the former US?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Dominance of this country is being fought over by a couple of petty 12 year old tyrants. It’s like a version of that Twilight Zone where the powerful kid is surrounded by people trying not to upset him, except the kids are drug-addled and senile.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

By launching it?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

The same spacex that hasn’t had a launch since trump took office?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The SpaceX that got 3 billion dollars to get us to Mars and didn't get beyond blowing up a banana over the Indian ocean, that one yes

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

What’s the threat here? If you don’t give me money then I won’t spend it?

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