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Musk threatens to withdraw Dragon capsule from NASA use

NASA also relies heavily on SpaceX for other programmes, including launching science missions and, later this decade, returning astronauts to the surface of the moon

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(From left) Tesla CEO Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump speak to the press as they stand next to a Tesla vehicle on the South Portico of the White House earlier this year. File pic/AFP

(From left) Tesla CEO Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump speak to the press as they stand next to a Tesla vehicle on the South Portico of the White House earlier this year. File pic/AFP

As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world’s richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).

After Trump threatened to cut government contracts given to Musk’s SpaceX rocket company and his Starlink internet satellite services, Musk responded via X that SpaceX “will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately.”

It’s unclear how serious Musk’s threat was. But the capsule, developed with the help of government contracts, is an important part of keeping the space station running.

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