SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company will no longer decommission its Dragon spacecraft after posting earlier Thursday that he would amid his social media feud with President Donald Trump.
Responding to an X user asking him to “cool off and take a step back for a couple days,” Musk replied, “Good advice. Ok, we won’t decommission Dragon.”
Musk said earlier on Thursday that the Dragon spacecraft would be decommissioned “immediately.”
“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk posted on X.
Before the decision, Trump hinted that the government could move to cancel contracts with Musk.
“The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!”
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“Elon was ‘wearing thin,’ I asked him to leave, I took away his EV Mandate that forced everyone to buy Electric Cars that nobody else wanted (that he knew for months I was going to do!), and he just went CRAZY!” Trump added.
Were the Dragon spacecraft to be decommissioned, U.S. spaceflight could be hurt, given the government’s increasing reliance on SpaceX. The craft retrieved two stranded astronauts in March.
