RE: Elon Musk
June 6, 2025 at 9:40 am
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2025 at 9:41 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
Quote:Elon Musk said Thursday his aerospace company SpaceX will ground Dragon, the spacecraft NASA uses to service the International Space Station amid his falling out with President Trump.
“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts,
@SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk said Thursday on X, the social media platform he purchased in 2022.
Musk’s post included a screenshot of Trump’s threat to scrap billions of dollars in federal contracts and subsidies the tech mogul’s companies receive.
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The decommissioning of Dragon could pose a serious threat to the Trump administration’s ability to bring astronauts and cargo back and forth between the space station and Earth.
https://thehill.com/business/5335638-mus...go-to-iss/
