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    Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP

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    2. woodrax on

      All because the ISS commander called him out regarding lies about the stranded astronauts being “abandoned” by Biden on the station.

    4. proxima-centauri- on

      At this point Elon could just produce a list of all he needs to help his business or money making ventures openly. Milk it for the next four years, go on man!

    7. Pyrsin7 on

      For clarification, the ISS is scheduled to be deported in 2030 anyway.

      So while on its face it’s not too crazy, there’s some important missing context. Firstly that SpaceX has the contract to deorbit to begin with, so it’s bumping up his payday. Secondly that both China and Russia have or are planning their own space station(s), meaning the USA will be the only one of them without a notable space presence. Do you think the US will stand for that? Who do you think will get the job of putting up a new one under this administration?

      And this comes just after the former ISS commander called out Elon for his lies.

      This is manipulation for his own enrichment, a petty retort for his hurt ego, or some combination of both.

    10. AnonymousEngineer_ on

      Apart from the obvious conflict of interest with Musk advocating for the focus and funding to be moved to SpaceX’s pet Mars project – this also neatly removes a funding source for some of SpaceX’s competitors like Sierra Space who have won Commercial Resupply contracts to the ISS.

    11. Mulsanne on

      It’s nice how this is the third time (at least) this story had to be posted because apparently someone who can remove stories from this sub is carrying water for musk

      That’s really gross behavior and they should feel ashamed

      Let’s see how long this stays up! 

    12. FreeEdmondDantes on

      Yeah well it’s the International Space Station not the American Space Station so he can fuck right off.

    13. Reatona on

      Has anyone noticed Musk seems to have the attention span of a flea? Whatever he’s ranting about, tomorrow he’ll be ranting about something else.

    15. Bgrngod on

      Astronauts have to go through psych evaluations to do what they do, but a guy like Elon gets to take over the government because money.

    16. hoti0101 on

      The part is SpaceX gets a lot of money shuttling astronauts to the ISS. In his fit of rage he’s going to lose out on even more government funding.

    22. foxy-coxy on

      Space X won’t even have the ISS deorbit vehicle ready in 2 years. It’s uncertain that they would have it time for the scheduled deorbit in 2030. This makes no sense.

    24. MidLifeFI on

      Cancel the entire program including all money to spacex. No one cares. Said it himself, the people mandated him to save money.

    25. JakeJangles on

      Correct me if im wrong but isn’t there already a plan to de orbit the ISS? I could have sworn i heard NDT talking about it..

      Edit hear to heard

    29. JEBariffic on

      It’s almost as if allowing mentally / emotionally stunted people to amass unfathomable wealth and power is a bad thing?

    31. WifeOfSpock on

      I hate this man so much. Like I don’t think I’ve felt this much genuine hate for someone I don’t personally know.

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    35. TrumpDidNoDrugs on

      And soon we’ll probably be hearing about some SpaceX station that he wants to replace it with that he’ll require billions of government funding to make happen