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Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

fred randall already went to mars

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about Fred Durst?

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

fred randall > fred durst

[–] HerrBeter@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What results?

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Falcon9 bring the cost of launching something to LEO down by an order of magnitude?

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Plus without SpaceX, our only ride to space would be the Soyuz

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ariane would like a word.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not aware of any human rated spacecraft being launched with Ariane. I know there were some concepts for at least Ariane 5, and it would be cool for Europe to be independent on this.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Ariane has an astronaut ferry and reentry vehicle? That's news to me. Also: they're more than 2x as expensive per kg to orbit.