Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Thursday said his company SpaceX would begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft after he engaged in an extraordinary public fallout with Donald Trump who had threatened to cancel government contracts with Musk’s businesses.
“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately,” Musk posted on the social media platform X, which he owns.
A few minutes earlier Trump had posted on Truth Social – the media platform that he owns – that he might cancel huge lucrative contracts with Musk’s businesses, which include the SpaceX company that is building a fleet of rockets.
Sure, except they’re also helping them develop their technology and paying them for it.
It’s like hiring a landscaper, but they don’t have their own equipment to start with, so you have to provide your technology and knowledge, as well as employees sometimes, to help them build their equipment, and then you pay them a premium to do the work instead of doing it all yourself.