As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, NASA revealed even more delays to Dragon's alternative,

Space science experts told ABC News SpaceX has been essential to NASA’s missions and the breakdown of a relationship would leave a hole that would be hard to fill.

Elon Musk escalated his criticisms of Trump's "big, beautiful bill" after the White House pulled a nomination for NASA administrator Jared Isaacman.

Elon Musk stepped back from his explosive feud with U.S. President Donald Trump, writing on X that he regrets some of his posts about his onetime ally. Early Wednesday morning, he posted “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far.”

It remains to be seen how Mr. Trump will handle the attempted rapprochement and whether the two men’s relationship can be restored.

Jared Isaacman, whose nomination to serve as NASA administrator was rescinded, discussed "exactly how it went."

NASA employees have until July 25 to decide if they'll stay or go. NASA put out a new call urging its workforce to leave the agency this week with a new offer for employment buyouts as the U.S. space program faces huge budget cuts proposed by the Trump administration.