Summary
Elon Musk accused former president Joe Biden of stranding NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on the ISS “for political reasons,” prompting Danish astronaut Andreas “Andy” Mogensen to label the claim “a lie.”
“What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media,” wrote the 48-year-old European Space Agency astronaut.
Musk called Mogensen “fully retarded” and claimed SpaceX could’ve rescued the astronauts months ago, without evidence.
NASA refuted Musk’s abandonment claim, calling it baseless.
He’s pretty transparent in his conflict of interest. He wants a SpaceX contract for a Mars mission. In the same tweet he said the ISS needs to be deorbited, he also said “let’s go to Mars instead!” This is him trying to make that happen. In a better world, this kind of blatant cronyism would be immediately punished.