Elon Musk stated Thursday his aerospace firm SpaceX will floor Dragon, the spacecraft NASA makes use of to service the Worldwide House 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 stated Thursday on X, the social media platform he bought in 2022.
Musk’s publish included a screenshot of Trump’s menace to scrap billions of {dollars} in federal contracts and subsidies the tech mogul’s firms obtain.
SpaceX describes Dragon as “the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth, and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the space station.”
The decommissioning of Dragon might pose a severe menace to the Trump administration’s skill to deliver astronauts and cargo backwards and forwards between the ISS and Earth.
NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens stated in a publish on X that the company “will continue to execute upon the President’s vision for the future of space. We will continue to work with our industry partners to ensure the President’s objectives in space are met.”
Musk’s menace was the newest salvo between the world’s richest man and the president.
Rising tensions between Musk and Trump erupted right into a vicious feud Thursday, with the tech mogul accusing the president of being named in categorized information associated to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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