Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Thursday said his company SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft after he engaged in an extraordinary public fallout with Donald Trump who had threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.

“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk posted on the social media platform X, which he owns.

A few minutes earlier Trump had posted on Truth Social – the media platform that he owns – that he might cancel huge lucrative contracts with Musk’s businesses, which include the SpaceX company that is building a fleet of rockets.

  • Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    1 day ago

    I was talking about ESA. They have the capability with the Arianne 6 to get people into space.

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      I can’t find anything about crewed flights. The best I found was this article.

      This Wiki mentions planned manned flights for Ariane, but maybe they’ve done something recently?