India, June 6 -- Elon Musk threatened to decommission the Dragon Space Capsule, a spacecraft used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station, after a heated argument with US President Donald Trump on Thursday.

It was unclear how serious Musk's Dragon Space Capsule threat was, but several hours later - in a reply to another X user - he said he wouldn't do it.

But in case Musk decides to go ahead with his threat, US' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will have only one option, Russia, to get crews to the International Space Station (ISS). Other than Dragon, Russia's Soyuz capsules are the only means of NASA getting crews to the space station.

Musk responded via X that SpaceX "will begin decommis...