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

submitted 3 weeks 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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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

WE'RE NOT GOING TO MARS, YOU FUCKING NAZI ASSCLOWN. IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA.

NASA HAS LAUNCHED MANY ROCKETS FOR MANY DECADES. YOU BLOW SHIT UP BECAUSE YOU THINK THE RULES OF PHYSICS AND MECHANICS DONT APPLY TO YOU.

EVERYTHING WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU WERE DEPORTED TO A BLACK SITE.

FUCK YOU, ELMO

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 14 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago (1 children)

fred randall already went to mars

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

What about Fred Durst?

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

fred randall > fred durst

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

What results?

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

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

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

Ariane would like a word.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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.

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

Nobody is going to Mars in our lifetimes