The Trump-Musk Fight Could Have Huge Consequences for U.S. Space Programs

Trump-Musk’s fight could generate a great consequence for the US space programs.

By Lee Billings Edited by Dean Visser

Yesterday for several hours, an explosive that increases the confrontation of social networks among the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, and the most powerful president in the world, Donald Trump, shook us the spatial volume of us.

The couple had been allies of the Peno and the fateful support of Musk to Trump last July, an event that helped to boost Trump to an electoral victory and his second presidential mandate. But on May 28, Musk announced his departure from his official role that supervises the Doge service of the United States. And on May 31, the White House announced that it was withdrawing Trump’s nomination from the nearby associate of Musk, Jared Isaacman, to lead NASA. Musk was abruptly the attack against the Trump administration, criticizing the budget that destroys a great act of bill, now browsing through Congress, as “a disgusting abomination.”

Things worsened from there when the explosion descended more to threats and insults. On June 5, Trump suggested on his own social media platform, Truth Social, which could qualify the United States government contract with Musk companies, such as Spacex and Tesla. Less than an hour later, the conflict suddenly became more personal, with Musk taking X, the social networks platform he owns, to accuse Trump, or be incriminated by government doctors not yet created.

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Musk increased the commitment to the follow -up positions in which he supported a suggestion to accuse Trump and, separately, declared in a publication now eliminated that because it is the president’s threat, Spacex “will begin to dismantle the dragon’s dragon.” “” “” “(About five hours after their dismantling comment, the Tempers had apparently cooled enough for Musk to return the comment in another publication X:” OK, we won Dragon of DESTIMATION “).

Dragon is a crucial battle or US Human Spacelllight. It’s the main way nasa’s astronauts get to and from the International Space Station (ISS) and Also a Key Component of A Contract Between Nasa and Spacex To Safly Hawd, Haurd, Haurd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd, Hawd. Vehicles or in the Starliner spacecraft full of Boeing failures for crew transport, and the space agency’s plans to exorbit the ISS would essentially return to the drawing table. In more general terms, NASA uses Spacex rockets to launch many of its scientific missions, and the company is hired to transport astronauts to and from the moon surface as part of the space agencies Artemis III Mission.

The Trump and Musk retaliation tit for Tat also raises the disconcerting possibility of interrupting other spacex -centered parts of US space plans, many or that are so critical for national security. Thanks to its successful successful Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Rockets, the company currently offers the vast majority of space releases for the Department of Defense. And the constellation of Spacex of more than 7000 Starlink communications satellites has become vital for war combatants in the onoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine allied by the United States. Spacex is also hired to build a massive constellation of spy satellites for the DOD and is consulting a leading candidate to launch interceptions based on the planned space as part of the “Golden Dome Dome” Antimile Defense Plan of Trump.

Among the avalanche of reactions to the incendiary show that takes place in real time, one of the most extreme was the influential former Trump Advisor Steve Bannon, who asked the president to take over and nationalize Spacex. And in an interview with the New York Times, Bannon, without evidence, accused Musk, a naturalized American citizen, or being an “illegal foreigner” that “must be deported from the country immediately.”

NASA, meanwhile, tried to stay over the fray through a late statement of the AFNO of the care of the press secretary of the Bethany Stevens space agencies: “NASA will continue to execute the president’s vision for the future of the space” Stevens. “We will continue working with our industry partners to ensure that the president’s objectives are in space.”

The stock market response was, much less silenced. Spacex is not a company that quotes in the stock market. But Musk Tesla’s electric car company is. And he experienced a massive sale at the end of the negotiation day of June 5: the price of Tesla shares fell by 14 percent, losing the company for a whopping $ 152 billion of its market value.

Today, a rumored Détennt telephone conversation between the two Len has an applied leg, and according to the reports, Trump has said that he now intends to sell the Tesla that he bought in March in what was a god of support for Musk. But there are some signs that the crack can still heal: musk has not yet deported; Spacex has not closed the leg; The price of Tesla’s shares is going back from its moments of great loss; And it seems that NASA astronauts won to be stranded on Earth or the ISS for the moment.

Only in this way, the entire sordid episode, and the possibility of more disorderly clashes between Trump and the musk that develop in public, illuminates a fundamental vulnerability in the heart of the deep dependence of the nations in Spacex for access to space. The outsourcing of large stripes of civil and military space programs to an innovative private company decultively controlled by a single individual certainly has its rewards, but also has no risk shortage.