Trump-musk fight can be a lot of consequences for US space programs

Trump-musk fight can be a lot of consequences for US space programs

by Lee Billings edited to Dean Visser

For hours yesterday, a degradant social media resistance between the world, Elon Musk, and the President of the World, President Donald Trump, shook the US Spaceflight.

Bosom-Buddy alliances since Musk FALIFUL UNSIRUNTIONS In Trump in July – an event that helped bring a victory to the election and his second president. But on May 28 Musk announceth his departure From his official role in charge of the US Dudge service. And on May 31 notified the White House this Trump’s nomination withdrawal In close associate with Musk Jared Isaacman to lead the NASA. Musk suddenly continues to attack against Trump administration, criticizing budget-busting a large beautiful bill, now that it has been navigating Congress, as “a disgusting disgusting. “

The things are getting worse from there while the blast seems deep in threats and insults. On June 5 Trump suggested his own social-media platform, the truth of truth, which he could Finish US government contracts with musk companies, such as Spacex and Tesla. No one hour ago, the conflict suddenly grows more personal, with musk taking X, the social media platform he owns, To accuse Trump-Avidence – which has been developed by unknown government documents associated with illegal activity to convicted sex Jeffrey Epstein.

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Musk is with ante plus follow-up posts where he endorses a suggestion for impeaching trumpet And, separately, expressed by a deleted post due to the threat of President, Spacex “begins to decommission to dragon spacecraft immediately.” . another x post: “OK, we don’t head to the dragon.”)

The dragon is a major human spaceflight workhorse. This is the main way of NASA astronauts to get and from the International Space Station (ISS) and also an important component of a contract between NASA and Spacex in Safely deorbit The ISS ISS of 2031. If the dragon is no longer available, NASA, at the near term, must depend on any vehicles in Russian Soyuz or in Boeing’s glitch-strike starliner spacecraft For its crew transport – and space agency plans for mocking the issues that need to return to the drawing board. Wider, NASA used spacesx rockets to launch most of the science missions, and the company contracted by astronauts to and from the face of the space agency Artemis 3 ACTIVE.

Trump and Mustk’s Retaliatic title for also increases the possibility of interrupting other Spacex-centric plans in US space plans, which are mostly in the contents for National Security. Thanks for the fierce successful applicable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Rockets, the company now gives most of the launches in the defense department’s space. And constellation in the spacex of More than 7,000 starlink communication satellites DONE very important to war fights in the ongoing conflict between Russia and US-alliance with Ukraine. Spacex is also contracted to build A large constellation of Spy Satellite for the DOD and is considered a leading candidate for launching space-based interctors that are thoughtful as part of The “Golden Dome” Missile-Defense Plan Plan.

Among the running of Innectiary Spectacle reactions unfolded in real time, one of Trump Steve Bannon’s adviser influence, who calls the President of seize and national spacex. And in the interview with New York Times, Bannon, with no evidence, RESPONDENT Musk, a naturalized US citizen, which is a “illegal foreign” that “should be exiled to the country immediately.”

NASA, for its part, tried to stay on top of the fray by a careful word underlined night statement From the Space Agency Stryny Stevens Stevens: “The NASA continues to impose President’s vision for the future in space,” Stevens wrote. “We will continue to work with our industry companions to ensure that the president’s goals are fulfilled.”

The response from the stock market is, in its own way, the more less muted. Spacex is not a public-selling company. But the Carm’s Carm’s Carm’s Carm And it experienced a huge sales-off at the end of the day of selling June 5: The price of Tesla dropped by 14 percent, lost Company is a whopping $ 152 billion value of its market.

Today is a selling telephone conversation in the dédente between two men apparently calledand Trump has reportedly said She now intends to sell the tesla she bought in March what was once a gesture of support for musk. But there are some signs that healing can heal: Musk has never been exiled; The Spacex is not shut down; Tesla stock price returns from easy heavy loss; And it seems that the astronauts cannot be stranded on the ground or by issues for the period.

However, the entire Sorlid episode – and the possibility of additional dangerous blowings between Trump and Musk unfolds a standard cleanliness of space in space access. Outsourcing several spices of civil space and military programs in a quick new private company that is effectively controlled by an individual with risks as well.