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Political Feuds and Fragile Alliances The Engineering Stakes Behind NASA’s Dependence on SpaceX DragonThe easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts.” That’s what President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social to start a firestorm that,
While the Starliner's first flight didn't exactly go to plan, both NASA and Boeing still hope the spacecraft can one day fly again.
Besides its flights to the International Space Station and Starship program, SpaceX is deeply embedded in the Department of Defense. The feud between Elon Musk and President Trump could end all that.
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Space science experts told ABC News SpaceX has been essential to NASA’s missions and the breakdown of a relationship would leave a hole that would be hard to fill.
In the heat of the moment, Elon Musk threatened to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and then he took it back. In doing so, however, the rocket billionaire dragged NASA into his messy breakup with Donald Trump, with the agency’s access to orbit now at stake.
NASA’s 2026 budget request would cut funding by almost a quarter and end Huntsville-based projects like the Space Launch System.
Elon Musk responded to Trump's threat about cancelation of his government contracts by saying that SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft
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.
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