Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Thursday said his company SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft after he engaged in an extraordinary public fallout with Donald Trump who had threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk posted on the social media platform X, which he owns.
A few minutes earlier Trump had posted on Truth Social – the media platform that he owns – that he might cancel huge lucrative contracts with Musk’s businesses, which include the SpaceX company that is building a fleet of rockets.
I think you’re joking a out how Ukrainians are the real people who got the USSR into space?
I was more calling out Russia is the only country with rockets that have gotten people into space. I think Europe has the means to do it, but whether that’ll be a priority over defense or other issues is the question. If SpaceX really pulls out of manned space flights, then it’s really just China at that point.
I’m not. It was mostly paperclipped Nazis on one side, mostly Ukrainians on the other. 🤷♂️
Russia might have ended up with the USSR’s rockets, but they certainly didn’t make and much less design them. The only thing Russia has ever produced is a worse future for Russia. They’re extremely efficient at that. It’s their whole history: “… and then it got worse.”