Absolutely no backup space crafts ready to deploy now that Trump decided to blackmail Musk. Elon Musk does not run a charity space shuttle. So, Trump’s act of racketeering in attempting subversion of Musk for his own purposes has resulted in a stoppage of spacecraft shuttling to and from the ISS.
The problem is compounded because the Russian side of the ISS is in severe disrepair. It is one thing to have a private space program, but, quite another to allow lose of autonomy of a federal sovereign space program.
Perhaps NASA can turn to Europe or Japan for any available help. This is no way to run a space program.
