Washington: Elon Musk clashed with a Danish astronaut on Thursday after the Spaceman criticized his assertion that former American president Joe Biden deliberately left two American astronauts blocked on the international space station.
Andreas “Andy” Mogensen had shared on Xa Fox News Clip with Musk and his boss, American president Donald Trump, where Musk said that Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams of NASA were blocked in the orbital outpost for ” Political reasons “of Biden, and that the new administration now came to the rescue.
“What a lie. And someone who complains about the lack of honesty of the consumer media,” wrote the astronaut of the 48 -year -old European space agency, who turned out to be twice, Including a dragon capsule of the SpaceX crew during a 2023 mission.
Musk replied by calling Mogensen “completely delayed”, adding that “SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago” and that he had made such an offer to the Biden administration, without developing what this offer involved.
Wilmore and Williams flew to ISS in June aboard a Boeing Starliner in what was an eight -day test mission to certify the new spacecraft.
But propulsion problems have led NASA to decide that Starliner should come back without its crew, and the agency has instructed Spacex to bring back veterans astronauts to the house.
NASA then announced that the pair would return to the spacecraft of SpaceX Crew-9 Mission, which was launched in September with a crew of two instead of four in order to accommodate them.
The travel house was initially scheduled for February, but then changed its walking due to SpaceX delays in the preparation of the spaceship for the crew-10, whose crew will replace the crew-9.
If there was another rescue plan that could have been executed earlier, Musk did not reveal it.
“Elon, I admired you for a long time and what you have accomplished, especially in Spacex and Tesla,” replied Moogensen to Musk’s Missive.
“You know as well as me, that Butch and Suni come back with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you don’t send a rescue ship to bring them home. They come back on The dragon capsule that has been on the ISS since last September.
