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Musk Waves Chainsaw at CPAC as DOGE Cuts Continue
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5:53Now PlayingBloomberg's Max Chafkin breaks down where Elon Musk stands in the Trump administration and his own business ventures as he takes a victory lap on the stage at CPAC.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recommended hastening the end of the International Space Station on his social media site X, arguing that the laboratory should be taken out of orbit within two years instead of the current five-year target.
“The decision is up to the President, but my recommendation is as soon as possible,” Musk wrote Thursday on his social media site X. He argued that the ISS “has served its purpose” and that there “is very little incremental utility.”
Musk then reiterated his ultimate plan: “Let’s go to Mars.”
Built in partnership with the Canadian, European, Japanese and Russian space agencies, the International Space Station has been a staple of NASA’s human spaceflight initiatives for the last three decades, serving as the primary location where astronauts live and conduct research in orbit.
Since November of 2000, the ISS has always had at least one crew member on board at all times.
The Biden administration in 2021 extended the planned lifetime of the ISS through the end of 2030, and last June awarded Musk’s SpaceX a $843 million contract to develop a spacecraft that could attach to the ISS and guide it out of orbit. Such a disposal would cause the ISS to break up as it plunges through the atmosphere.
SpaceX is a major partner on the ISS program, with NASA contracts to deliver astronauts and cargo to the station.
Musk made the comments amid a flurry of X posts about space policy on Thursday.
In response to Musk’s posts, NASA said that its current plans “call for using the International Space Station, and future commercial space stations, in low Earth orbit to conduct groundbreaking science, as well as a training ground for crewed missions to the Moon and Mars.”
“We’re looking forward to hearing more about the Trump Administration’s plans for our agency and expanding exploration for the benefit of all,” a NASA spokesperson said in the statement.
As the leader of the government cost cutting effort known as the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk has established himself as one of President Donald Trump’s top advisers.
Responding to a question about conflicts of interest involving Musk and his companies, Trump said on Tuesday that he would not let the world’s richest person partake in government work related to space.
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