Elon Musk is no longer looking with his former best friend in the White House.
The founder and CEO of Spacex recently concluded his 130 -day appointment as “Special Government Employee”, a duration of what the Cost and Regulation Government Efficiency Department led (Doge).
The musk and President Donald Trump apparently separated into a positive note, sharing friendly words about the other with a press conference from the Oval office on May 30. “
But his public relationship begged that he agreed at the time, after Musk’s criticism or Trump’s “great bill”.
“This massive bill, outrageous and full of pork is an unpleasant abomination. Shame for those who voted for it: you know that you did wrong. You know it,” Musk said through X on Tuesday (June 3).
Trump replied, publishing in his social media place Truth Social Today (June 5) that “Elon was” using thin “and asked him to leave.”
The president followed that with another position, which said that the United States could save money canceling government contracts and subsidies granted to Musk’s Companies. In response to this threat, Musk replied one of his.
“In the light of the President’s statement about the cancellation of my government contracts, @spacex in the early elimination of his Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk published in X, which he bought in 2022, when he was still called Twitter.
In the light of the president’s statement on the cancellation of my government contracts, @spacex will eliminate its Dragon IMedation Pic.twitter.com/ng9sijjjggw spacecraft earlyJune 5, 2025
It is difficult to say when or how this splash will be developed, but the current trajectory could point to a gloomy result for US space light.
The cancellation of Spacex government contracts would eliminate the country’s capacity to launch astronauts into space from the American soil. The Spacex crew and the variants of the loading dragon spacecraft have changed the panorama of NASA operations aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and marked the beginning of a new era or the space flight of the US.
Dragon-Iph Musk dismantling was taken seriously in doing so, and not just call overcome to supervision.
And, while the Boeing Starliner spacecraft has the potential to fill Dragon Barying shoes, it has faced a series of problems; Starliner is not yet certified to fly an astronaut operational missions and is still several months after launching again.
Some of the most substantial government contracts in Spacex include NASA’s commercial crew program and load repayment services for ISS and Space Stations Deorbit Vehicle. NASA also chose the spacecraft next generation space of Spacex to be Creed’s first lunar landing for its Artemis Moon program. If everything goes as planned, Starship will put NASA astronauts on the moon for the first time in 2027, in the Artemis Mission 3. The cessation of these contracts, together with the cut of almost 25% to the general budget of NASA and approximately 50% cut to its science programs that the White House has proposed by 2026, could mark the end of NASA as we know it.
A crew dragon is currently docked in the ISS; It is in the middle of the Astronaut mission of the Spacex-10 crew for NASA. The next dragon in the alignment of NASA’s commercial crew is scheduled to launch the CREW-11 mission not before July. However, that mission can now be in danger, along with many others.
However, it is not clear what a dragon dragon would mean for the other Spacex space flight efforts. The Houston -based company, Axiom Space, is just a few days after launching its fourth private astronaut mission to the ISS aboard a new Dragon spacecraft, which was delivered to its launch platform at the NASA Kennedy Space Center this week. Spacex also recently carried out the first human space flight in a polar orbit around the earth as part of the private mission of astronaut Fram2, and opened a similar terrain with the first private space walk during the Polaris Dawn mission last September.
That mission was part of the Polaris program of Jared Isaacman, whose objective is to expand the field of private space flight. Isaacman is a billionaire and philanthropist entrepreneur who has used two Spacex, Polaris Dawn and its Inspiration4 Polaris Mission, to raise money for the Saint Jude Research Hospital.
Until recently, Isaacman was Trump’s choice to become NASA administrator, and Congress was expected to confirm this week. But the White House unexpectedly unexpectedly nomination over the weekend, the possible pointing for the division of the president and the musk.
In an answer sent by email to Space.com on Trump’s suggestion to cancel government contracts for Musk companies, and Musk’s directive for Spacex to decomme to December Willecue to Willecue.
