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.
Blue Origin has used FAR less government money than SpaceX. That’s one of the reason they sell those trips. You have to pay for things somehow.
Right. They built their rockets on Amazon what theft and stock profits. Totally different than stealing directly from tax payers.
You are an idiot.
Now, now, those were the ways of Reddit. I’d like to think we conduct ourselves better than that on Lemmy.
I’m not denying that.
I mean, SpaceX has a lot more government contacts, because you know, they have working orbital vehicles…
They had way more government funding to get to the point Blue Origin is at. I’m not just talking about right now. That would be silly.
The point blue origin is at is having nothing. They’ve gotten nothing to orbit.
How much government finding did spaceX have before they got the falcon 1 to orbit? I honestly don’t recall, but my instinct says $0.
Hell, even "stra got their thing to orbit. I think. Then their stock crashed even harder.
Oops, yes they have gotten to orbit. All while using less seed money from the government. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-launches-massive-new-glenn-rocket-into-orbit-on-1st-flight-video