A major decision was suddenly changed between billionaire businessmen Elon Musk and Donald Trump on social media. Elon Musk had earlier announced that his company Spacex would soon shut down the ‘Dragon’ spacecraft, but after a few hours he took a U-turn from this statement.
In fact, in response to Trump’s threat to abolish government contracts and subsidy, Musk wrote on X that Spacex will start decomposing its dragon spacecraft with immediate effect. Musk made this announcement when Trump had talked about cancellation of government contracts of Elon’s companies- Spacex and Starlink. However, a few hours later, Musk responded to another user and made it clear that he was not really going to do so.
NASA’s lifeline is dragon
Spacex’s Dragon Capsule is currently the only option of NASA, which leads astronauts and essential goods to the International Space Station (ISS). Since 2020, the United States has rely on Dragon to reduce its dependence on Russia’s Soyuz Capsules. Let us know that the Starliner capsule of Boeing is still on the ground, it cannot be trusted due to the previous unsuccessful flight. At the same time, in March, two NASA astronomers had to bring back from the capsule of Spacex.
Not only government, private mission is also dependent on dragon
Apart from NASA, private companies like Axiom Space also use dragon capsules. A mission of Axiom is going to fly through these capsules next week. NASA not only provides space supply from dragon, but has also used the starship rocket of Spacex for the mission of unloading humans on the moon. Apart from this, Spacex has also been entrusted with the responsibility of setting up the International Space Station on the Earth safely at the time of its service.