New Delhi, June 6 -- Elon Musk has signalled a scaling back of hostilities with US President Donald Trump, stating that SpaceX will not be decommissioning the Dragon spacecraft. Musk had previously threatened to decommission the capsule in response to Trump's threat to cancel all US government contracts with Musk's companies.

"In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately" Musk had wrote quoting a post by Trump.

However, the billionaire did seem in conciliatory mood after some advice from one of followers, writing, "This is a shame this back and forth. You are both better than this. Cool off and take a step back for a couple days....