Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat

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Source: CNBC

Published Thu, Jun 5 2025 4:16 PM EDT | Updated 6 Min Ago


Elon Musk on Thursday said that his company SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft “immediately” because of threats by President Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses. Musk’s announcement, on his social media site X, came amid an escalating war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla

CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president. “In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk wrote.

Dragon is the only U.S. option for delivering crew to and from the International Space Station. A Dragon capsule brought NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth in March after the pair were stranded for months at the ISS by a Boeing Starliner capsule. SpaceX is one of the biggest federal contractors. Since 2008, SpaceX has received more than $20 billion in contracts from NASA, the Air Force and other agencies.

According to SpaceX’s website, “The Dragon spacecraft is capable of carrying up to 7 passengers to and from Earth orbit, and beyond.” “It is the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth, and is the first private spacecraft to take humans to the space station,” the company says. SpaceX has been developing a replacement for Dragon.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/musk-trump-spacex-dragon-nasa.html

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Unless Boeing gets their shit together, there are only 2 entities that can fly to and dock at the ISS - him or Russia.

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Elon Musk on Thursday said that his company SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft "immediately" because of threats by President Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk's businesses.

Musk's announcement, on his social media site X, came amid an escalating war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.

"In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately," Musk wrote.

A SpaceX Dragon capsule brought NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth in March after the pair were stranded for months at the International Space Station by a Boeing Starliner capsule.


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[C_U_L8R]

1. this is like watching a manic tennis match

I'm getting whiplash from the back and forth. Comedy gold !

[AllaN01Bear]

29. more like spoilt brats having a temper tantrum.

[nitpicked]

2. Is THAT why Thump is being nice to Russia??

Just saying...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

18. During Trump 1.0 Putin patted him on the head and said, "Who's a good boy?"

Tangerine Boy would brag about their long daily talks and how Putin told him he was the best leader the world has ever had.

I imagine during Trump 2.0 Vlad's tired of having TACO hanging around throwing temper tantrums, as has the rest of the world.

[groundloop]

30. Or more likely Putin is still playing TACO tRump, only in a different way.

[Lovie777]

3. shithole will sic DOJ & AG Bondi on elon...........

[speak easy]

4. Yes, but Musk has the money and connections to hold them off,

until Krasnov is fully gutted.

[Attilatheblond]

27. And gods know what data his tech babies gathered all Trump & 'all the president's men'

Probably has some interesting data on Junior, Eric, maybe even the rest of the family.

[question everything]

5. This is why the shuttle program should have never been cancelled. Though it appears that Putin has been more reliable

[speak easy]

8. TACO. Musk is betting on TACO.

[Wifes husband]

17. The shuttle was fragile delivery system.

Not safe at all. The original concept was to have a humongous airplane deliver the shuttle to a high altitude. This was eliminated by Nixon to "save costs", and the fragile big fuel tank was put in place.

Republican math again.

It was just not safe

[Mustellus]

6. And this is why.....

... Elmo Musk wants us to do the Golden Dome as a rental, with Musk retaining ownership.

[RussBLib]

7. Isn't Dragon how they launch Starlink?

Why would Leon Skum cut his own throat? Cut Trump's instead. This is getting good.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[RussBLib]

9. Oops

That's Falcon. Dragon is the NASA assist to the Moon, and Mars?

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Artemis (to the Moon) uses Dragon as a resupply ship, and "Starship" - the one that keeps blowing up

for landing on the Moon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Dragon is actually a crew capsule (that has its own independent stuff)

The Starlink sats are deployed out of the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket (the Falcon 9 is also used with the Dragon on top).

[speak easy]

11. No, Falcon is how they launch Starlink.

Dragon is the Astronaut capsule.

[BidenRocks]

38. Cargo Dragon is the freighter

Crew Dragon, of course.
Starship, being an experimental prototype can blow up as often as it takes to get it right.
Just do it on your dime.

[cstanleytech]

41. Are SpaceX and Starlink costing Musk more than they are earning? If so it could just be an excuse to ditch them.

[Tarzanrock]

10. This is going to be akin to watching a couple of ...

big, ugly, drunk and really angry red-hat wearing Republican Nazi Party women engaged in a vicious knock down, drag-out cat fight inside a bar. If I had to wager on this one -- I'd put the money down on the Mu$krat since he is obviously "smarter" than the idiot Turd. I wonder who Miss Lindsey is betting on?

[Javaman]

12. ...

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Who's "abandoning astronauts in space" now, Taco Trump?

During a Fox News interview with host Sean Hannity on Feb. 18, Trump said he gave Musk the “go-ahead” to accelerate a mission to retrieve the astronauts, claiming that they had been abandoned on purpose by former President Joe Biden to avoid political backlash. Trump said, “They didn’t have the go-ahead with Biden. He was going to leave them in space. I think he was going to leave them in space. … He didn’t want the publicity. Can you believe it?”

It was not the first time Trump had made such an accusation. On Jan. 28, Trump took to Truth Social to post, “I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to ‘go get’ the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration.”

During the Hannity interview, Musk claimed that at Trump’s request “we are accelerating the return of the astronauts, which was postponed, kind of, to a ridiculous degree,” saying that “they were left up there for political reasons, which is not good.”

In response to Musk’s claims, several astronauts took to X to refute the idea that the astronauts were purposefully abandoned. Andreas Mogensen, a former SpaceX astronaut from Denmark, posted: “What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.” In response to Mogensen, Elon replied: “You are fully retarded. SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused. Return WAS pushed back for political reasons. Idiot.”

Mogensen responded by stating, “Elon, I have long admired you and what you have accomplished, especially at SpaceX and Tesla. You know as well as I do, that Butch and Suni are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home. They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on ISS since last September.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/the-facts-behind-the-delayed-return-of-u-s-astronauts/

[paulkienitz]

15. Great. He's all about space but wants to fuck over our astronauts.

[BidenRocks]

19. Simply put,

Now we will need to pay russian launch prices to Elon.
No plan except extortion.

[IronLionZion]

20. Knowing shithole, he might easily contract with Russia

since Boeing ain't going. And for some reason GOP don't want to fund NASA to make suitable spacecraft.

[erronis]

21. the muskrat can also turn off starlink to any location at any time at his ketamine/psychedelic whim.

If I remember right, he's wired the White House to use his starlink for communications.

Fun, fun, fun.

[EastBayGuy]

35. ...a sudden late night disconnection, immediately following a nasty post about Musk on Truth Social leaves the White

House offline...

[Justice matters.]

37. And putler launches supersonic nukes...

And nobody is reachable to respond in time...

[LT Barclay]

22. Exactly why a bunch of flaky narcissists shouldn't be the ones running our manned space program

Of course that includes Trump

[dchill]

23. M'kay.

[Puppyjive]

24. Can't rely on private contractors

Just shows why we need NASA, not a private citizen calling the shots.

[groundloop]

31. Damned Straight. Before long our space exploration will be a thing of the past.

China will surpass us in that too.

[Raven123]

33. EXACTLY!

[IronLionZion]

34. Yeah but think of the efficiency

Musk efficiently makes billions of dollars from our taxes.

[cstanleytech]

25. Is it costing him more money than it's earning? Because that's what I'm leaning towards being the real reason.

[COL Mustard]

26. The enemy of my enemy...

Can still be a world class asshole. Not sure which one I dislike more but I'll think on it.

[DENVERPOPS]

28. My thinking is, that:

Trump is being pushed aside for Musk by Putin.........Trump is near being worthless to Putin.......and Elon has stepped up to the plate as Putin's New Star........

[ananda]

32. See, that's why NASA never should have been privatized.

In fact, no public service should be.

[PSPS]

36. This is what happens when NASA gets privatized.

[BidenRocks]

39. Boeing blew it!

New Glenn never happened so now we have sole source.
Space X is run by Gwynne Shotwell as President and COO.
Musk is the founder.
NASA should have gone with Sierra Space and its Dream Chaser space plane.
Chances are it would be close to crew rated by now.

[Canada Kid]

40. Military intervention now!

Now is the time for the military to step in and take over the SpaceX Dragon program, arrange to immediately evacuate the space station as soon as possible of all crew regardless of country affiliation, land them safely, then freeze the entire space program for now. Then both Trump and Musk be arrested for endangering the lives of those astronauts with their childish and irresponsible feud.

[BadgerMom]

42. Sputnik was launched. America freaked out.

US engineers were recruited. Students were urged to become engineers. Telstar was launched. The space race was on and America and our leaders were dedicated to the idea that we would not be caught unprepared again. We got to the moon. And we were proud of that.

This tells me that we have the academics, the research universities and the money and the brains to do this. What I don’t believe we have right now is the steady leadership in Congress or the White House.

[mdbl]

43. This is what you get when you put petulant children in charge

Thanks again dumb-ass magats. Oh and I don't care if you are a swing voter. If you voted for Dump, you're a magat whether you like it or not.