The quarrel of men and Trump threatened Spacex’s contracts as well as the US space program

The fate of Spacex contracts with a state worth around $ 22 billion is threatened, but also more US space programs are ahead of changes because of the increasingly fierce conflict between billionaire Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump, caused by a disagreement on the Tax Incentive Act that will significantly increase state consumption.

Their consumption disagreement soon turned into a fight and chaos on Thursday, after Trump attacked the male in his statements at an oval office. While Musk posted a series of messages on XU, Trump threatened to terminate state contracts with companies in Muskovo owned, who said in response that his space company « would immediately start with the decomiation of his spacecraft Dragon ».

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule is the only US spacecraft capable of sending astronauts to the international space station in the international space station. NASA relies on that aircraft since 2020 under a contract with Spacex worth $ 5 billion, which is one of many arrangements that make the man’s space-based companies a dominant part of the US space program.

Nasa did not immediately respond to the comment request.

The altercation raised questions about how far Trump, often as an unpredictable force that has politically intervened in past public procurements, willing to go to punish the male, and one of the questions, for example, whether the US president will prioritize the political retaliation at the cost of billions of dollars of a valuable Spacex contract that is considered by NASA and the Pentagon Pentagon.

Spacex received $ 15 billion from NASA, and the agency relies on Dragon in return and puts many of its scientific useful cargo and spacecraft on the Falcon 9 rocket and helps to finance the development of SpaceX’s Starship, which is ready to lower NASA astronauts to the month of this decade.

In Pentagon, SpaceX’s job launching rocket launching is crucial to setting up national safety satellites. The SpaceX military satellite unit builds a massive spy constellation in orbit for the US intelligence agency.

The withdrawal of Dragon from use would probably disrupt the ISS program, which includes dozens of countries according to the two decades of the old international agreement, but it is not clear for now how quickly the Dragon withdrawal will happen.

For years, Musk has been trying to ‘retire’ Dragon to give priority to Starship as a leading space vessel of the company. In 2022, Spacex decided to stop the production of Dragon, limiting his fleet to only four rockets, before Nasa called on the company to build them more because the Starlininer’s Boeing capsule was struggling with development.