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Elon Musk just threw a live grenade into the middle of his ongoing beef with former buddy Donald Trump. On Thursday, he posted on X that SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately. The trigger? Trump threatened to kill every government contract tied to Elon’s businesses. The two have been taking shots at each other ever since Elon blasted Trump’s tax plan. Now it’s gotten nuclear. “In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Elon posted. Just like that, one of the most important spacecraft flying today—gone. Dragon has been the only US-built ride for astronauts heading to and from the International Space Station. There is no backup that’s ready. SpaceX is shutting down both Dragon 1 and 2 Elon’s decision doesn’t just hit one version of the Dragon. The entire line is on the chopping block. This includes Dragon 1, which flew 23 missions between 2010 and 2020 under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program. It was built with $396 million of NASA funding through the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program. It was only meant for cargo and didn’t carry humans. That job went to Dragon 2. Dragon 2 came in 2019. Unlike the earlier model, this one could fly both cargo and astronauts. The uncrewed test flight—Demo-1—launched in March 2019. The first crewed launch—Demo-2—followed in May 2020. Since then, Crew Dragon has become one of NASA’s top options for sending humans to the ISS. It replaced the dependency on Russian Soyuz rockets after the Shuttle program ended. The Cargo Dragon version kept handling deliveries under the CRS contract. As of now, SpaceX’s Dragon capsules are the only spacecraft made in the US that are capable of flying astronauts to space and bringing them back. One of…

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