Washington: Elon Musk faced Thursday with a Danish astronaut after the Spaceman criticized his statement that the former president of the United States, Joe Biden, deliberately left two US astronauts stranded in the International Space Station.
Andreas “Andy” Mogensen had shared in X a Fox news clip with Musk and his boss, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, where Musk said that Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams of NASA were stranded in the advanced position Orbital for “political reasons” of Biden, and that they drill, and that the new administration now reached the rescue.
“What a lie. And of someone who complains about the lack of honesty of the main media,” wrote the astronaut of the 48 -year -old European Space Agency, who has flown to the ISS twice, included aboard a capsule of Spacex crew dragon during a 2023 mission.
Musk responded by calling Mogensen “completely delayed”, and added that “Spacex could have brought them back several months ago” and that he had made such an offer for the Biden administration, without elaborating what that offer implied.
Wilmore and Williams flew to the ISS in June aboard a Boeing Starliner for what was destined to be an eight -day test mission to certify the new spacecraft.
But propulsion problems led NASA to decide that Starliner should return without his crew, and the agency commissioned Spacex to take veterans astronauts home.
NASA then announced that the couple would return in the spacecraft of the Spacex Crew-9 mission, which was launched in September with a crew of two instead of four to accommodate them.
The Voyage Home was initially scheduled for February, but then changed to March due to Spacex delays to prepare the spacecraft for CREW-10, whose crew will replace CREW-9.
If there were an alternative rescue plan that could have been executed before, Musk has not revealed it.
“Elon, for a long time I have admired you and what you have achieved, especially in Spacex and Tesla,” Mogensen replied to Musk’s letter.
“You know as good as I, that Butch and Suni return with CREW-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending a rescue boat to bring them home. They return in the dragon capsule that has been in ISS since last September. “
