A fewer hours later, a billionaire seemingly withdrew from the threat, after 1 of X users urged Musk to “he cooled down and took a step backwards for a fewer days”, noting that both he and Trump were ‘Better than that’."Good advice. Ok, we will not retreat Dragon” – Musk replied in another post.
However, unlike his first statement, the reversal was not visible on his public timeline.
It is unclear whether Musk was serious about stopping the spacecraft, which would seriously disrupt the American space program.The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is the only American spacecraft that is presently certified and capable of sending American astronauts into space.
NASA has been relying on it in delivering cargo and crew to the global Space Station since 2020, after a long hiatus after the withdrawal of the space shuttle program in 2011. The competitive Starliner task by Boeing suffered from years of delays and method defects.
His first manned flight of June last year – originally scheduled for 2017 – ended with the trapping of 2 NASA astronauts aboard the ISS, after it was considered that the return of the spacecraft was dangerous.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams did not safely return to Earth until March aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon after Trump called on Musk to aid save the duo, while criticizing his predecessor Joe Biden for leaving them "damaged".Earlier this year, NASA and Russia's space agency Roskosmos extended the sharing agreement that allows Americans to travel on the ISS aboard the Soyuz spacecraft, until 2027. SpaceX has raised over $20 billion in contracts from NASA, US Air Force and another government agencies since 2008, making it 1 of the largest national contractors in the country.
Trump inactive needs to explain whether the U.S. government will cancel any contracts with Musk and his companies.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/618718-musk-spacex-dragon-decommissioning/
