NASA, Elon Musk and Donald Trump
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President Donald Trump threatened to cut government contracts with Elon Musk amid feud, while the SpaceX CEO suggested decommissioning a spacecraft.
Elon Musk said SpaceX would decommission its Dragon spacecraft "immediately" after Trump threatened his government contracts in their online feud.
Elon Musk says that he's cutting off NASA's access to space, in a potentially devastating blow to the United States' space program.
A rift between President Donald Trump and billionaire backer and Tesla CEO Elon Musk erupted Thursday with the two trading insults.
Donald Trump spent part of Friday morning letting some news outlets know that he has no plans to talk to Elon Musk, even amid talk of a potential truce in their messy fallout. On CNN, Dana Bash said that she got off the phone with Trump,
Trump and Musk exchanged comments on social media as the president made threats to terminate Musk's governmental subsidies and contracts, and alleged that Musk is upset because he canceled the federal electric vehicle mandate imposed by the Biden administration.
Elon Musk’s decision to go all in on Donald Trump never made much sense. His scorched-earth approach to breaking up with Trump is even harder to square.
If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond.