Feud Exposes How Reliant NASA Is on SpaceX

“Elon Musk’s threat Thursday to decommission SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft would have left NASA reliant on Russian capsules to get its astronauts into space,” Axios reports.

“Musk’s rift with President Trump exposes how reliant NASA has become on a single private sector partner to reach the International Space Station after ending the space shuttle program in 2011.”

“Musk eventually walked back the threat Thursday, but it demonstrates how critical SpaceX is to the American space program.”