I agree with you in general. But there is a difference between "complaining about the government" and "threatening to decommission the only spacecraft they have for launching satellites into orbit."

It was inevitable that critical mission overseers would have to assess the state of their fallback options...

Since Thursday's exchange, at least three commercial space companies, Rocket Lab, Stoke Space and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, have been contacted by government officials about the status of their rockets and when they might be available for government missions, according to four people familiar with the inquiries.

Officials at Sierra Space, which is developing a Dream Chaser spaceplane that could deliver cargo to the space station, were in a meeting with NASA officials on Thursday as the Trump-Musk feud was getting underway. "Sierra Space stands ready to ensure uninterrupted support for the International Space Station," Fatih Ozmen, the company's CEO, said in a statement to The Post.