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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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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What if this is some 4d chess move to give more funding to NASA?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Didn’t they just cut a shitload from nasa like 2 days ago?

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Yep, but when did Elon started turning on Trump? Not sure about the timeline of these events

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

You mean... By Musk? Yikes... Does anyone have to answer that? Are you new to this reality?