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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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 100 points 10 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

That's the CO part of the TACO

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 10 months ago

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

[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

SNASA is that you?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lil NASA X

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Gaddammit that’s annoyingly good.

[–] vacuumfountain@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I doubt he could manage that.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have said before I will eat both of my socks if a SpaceX rocket and ship fly humans to the moon and safely return by 2030.

I will also eat both of my socks if a two bit mob boss turned fascist nationalizes any significant corporate or industrial anything.

Fascists don't outright nationalize shit, because if they did, the entire oligarch class that is a huge part of their support base would turn on them instantly.

Fascists make deals with, facilitate, get kick backs from corporate oligarchs.

They essentially never seize their assets outright, because that would undermine the entire capitalist system that the corpos rely on, and support fascists so that they will keep getting tax breaks and grants and other government subsidies.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago

You’re almost certainly right, but since the situation is already off the rails, I just figured I’d throw nationalization out there for laughs.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

He'll just flog it to someone more compliant.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not likely, Trump is pro privatization.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

nationalise, and then privatise?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

Claim Musk is a dangerous foreign influence and force a sale like for Tiktok