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Elon Musk Thursday said his company Space will start withdrawal Space Ship of the Dragon “right away” from -the threats on the part of the president Donald Trump To cancel state contracts with Moscow enterprises.
But a few hours later, Musk said, “Okay, we will not release the dragon,” after User X urged him “to cool and take a step back for a couple of days.”
Musk near the face on its social media X site came against the background of escalation War of words with Trump that started after Tesla The CEO criticized the basic tax bill that pushed the Republican president.
“In light of the President’s statement about the abolition of my government contracts@Spacex will immediately start the exploitation of the Dragon spacecraft, “Musk wrote.
Dragon – the only US -delivery option to and with International Space Station.
Initial tweet Musk about deduction from the exploitation of the dragon replied to Truth social post Trump, who wrote: “The easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars is to stop Elon’s state subsidies and contracts.”
“I was always surprised that Biden didn’t! “,” Trump added.
User X with a handle @fab25june on Thursday evening asked Musk to revise.
“It’s a shame of this back and forth,” @fab25june wrote in Musa. “You are both better than that. Cool and take a couple of days.”
Musk quickly replied: “Good advice. Okay, we will not fide the dragon.”
Joe Vizental, co -chairman of the Bloomberg’s Wird Lots, a screen that held a Twitter exchange on his own and rejected: “The account with 184 followers reached de -escalation between the two most powerful people in the world.”
How much de -escalation, how much time it will last and how serious Musk about the Dragon’s fate, one way or another, will still have to be learned.
In tweets, Musk was aimed at Trump on twitter and the so -called one big, beautiful bill on Thursday. And it was unclear whether it would ease the fire or in the coming days.
It is also not clear that Trump would forgive him or refrain from getting out against Musk, which was one of his main government advisers before Friday, and who spent more than a quarter of billions of dollars, supporting the Trump’s White House 2024.
“Without me, Trump would have lost the election,” Musk wrote on Thursday.
“Dems will control the House, and the Republicans will be 51-49 in the Senate,” Musk added
“Such is the ingratitude,” he wrote.
The Dragon capsule brought NASA Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to the ground after the couples were abandoned at the Boeing Starliner capsule for months.
Most recently delivered dragon 6700 pounds, scientific investigations and equipment to the ISS on April 22.
On board the ISS is currently on the mission headed by Russian Cosmanut Alexi Ovchin. Three NASA astronauts are part of the crew.
NASA’s press -secretary, Betani Stevens, wrote on a tweet after Musk announced: “NASA will continue to fulfill the president’s vision in the future of space.”
“We will continue to work with our branch partners to ensure the fulfillment of the president’s goals in space,” Stevens wrote.
SpaceX is one of the largest federal contractors. Since 2008, SpaceX has received more than $ 20 billion from NASA, Air Force and other agencies.
According to the SpaceX website, “the Dragon spacecraft is capable of carrying up to 7 passengers to and from it.”
“This is the only spacecraft that is currently flying, which is able to return a significant amount of cargo to the ground, and is the first private spacecraft that delivered people to the space station,” the company said.
SpaceX develops a replacement Dragon.
In November, SpaceX President Gwin Shotwell said the company would fly the dragon for another six years.
Currently, the company is checking its Starship rocket, which exploded for the third time in the May launch.
