Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat — or not
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SpaceX's Dragon is the only U.S. option for delivering crew to and from the International Space Station.

KEY POINTS

  • 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.
    • moonlight@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      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.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      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·
        3 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.