this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
286 points (97.7% liked)

science

19105 readers
512 users here now

A community to post scientific articles, news, and civil discussion.

rule #1: be kind

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
laverabe@lemmy.world
m3t00@lemmy.world
Joleee@lemmy.world
DeadPand@midwest.social
laverabe@lemmy.zip
286
Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 1 day ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world
67 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

KEY POINTS

  • Elon Musk said SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft “immediately” because of threats by Donald Trump to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
  • Musk’s announcement on his social media site X escalated a war of words with Trump that began after the Tesla CEO criticized the major tax bill being pushed by the Republican president.
  • A SpaceX Dragon capsule brought two NASA astronauts back to Earth in March after they were stranded for months at the International Space Station by a Boeing Starliner capsule.
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have they even achieved orbit?

[–] urda@lebowski.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, NG-1 was orbital

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not yet

Edit: Turns out I was wrong. Their craft that was supposed to make it to orbit made it on its first attempt. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-launches-massive-new-glenn-rocket-into-orbit-on-1st-flight-video