FLORIDA SPACE COAST, FL – My comments about the out of control feud between President Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after Musk departed his impactful Doge role at the White House and threatened to immediately decommission the Crew Dragon astronaut taxi and the impact on other programs and missions on the Space Coast were featured in Florida Today. In the print edition on Sunday, June 8, as well as June 7 online.
I commented about Musks terrible and reckless threat to decommission the Crew Dragon immediately – which launches NASA astronauts to space & which would threaten the survival of ISS.
Musk’s attitude would negatively impact his other rocket launches as well for NASA, government, military & commercial companies on the Florida Space Coast, Vandenburg SFB, CA and Starbase, Tx
The lead image from the print edition features my comments at right in Column 4
Quotes from me:
Ken Kremer is a Titusville research chemist and managing editor of SpaceUpClose.com. On May 31, he attended retired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson’s U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
Whitson is now commanding Axiom Space’s fourth crewed mission to the ISS, in partnership with SpaceX. On Tuesday, June 10, a Dragon is scheduled to carry her and three fellow astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary into low-Earth orbit aboard a Falcon 9. Liftoff is scheduled for 8:22 a.m. from KSC.
“It’s absolutely amazing. Elon Musk is totally irresponsible to threaten to decommission the Dragon immediately. That’s just awful,” Kremer said.
“The future of the ISS is dependent, as you know, on the Dragon. It must fly,” he said.
Kremer said Musk is threatening the success of his own business, particularly given the accelerating cadence of liftoffs from the Cape.
“He is imperiling his own launches for Starlink, commercial companies, military satellites. And it’s just kind of, like, mind-boggling that he would threaten to do something like that. It’s self-destructive,” he said.
Link to Online version: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2025/06/06/will-president-donald-trump-elon-musk-conflict-hamper-spacex-launches-from-cape-canaveral-florida/84065863007/
