How NASA Would Struggle Without SpaceX if Trump Cancels Musk’s Contracts NYT | Top Stories By: Kenneth Chang 6 June 2025 at 08:01 If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond. © NASA, via Associated PressA SpaceX capsule carrying NASA astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, undocking from the International Space Station, in March.