Elon Musk has become entangled in an ugly online spit after an astronaut had destroyed his mission to return two stranded NASA astronauts as a 'lie'.
The founder of SpaceX promised on Wednesday to return Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, to Earth 'within four weeks' when he hit the Biden government for leaving them in an interview with Sean Hannity .
“They stayed up for political reasons, which is not good,” said Musk in the interview, where Trump adds'[Biden] Would leave them in the room. I think he would leave them in space. '
But the Danish astronaut Andreas Mogsen, who drove a mission for SpaceX in 2023, punished the claim.
“What a lie,” wrote the 48-year-old European space agency Astronaut on X. “and from someone who complains about lack of honesty of the regular media.”
Musk did not go well for the criticism and called Mogensen 'completely r *******.
'SpaceX could have returned them a few months ago. I offered this directly to the Biden administration and they refused. Return was pushed back for political reasons. Idiot. '
Yet Mogensen doubled his criticism of Musk's claim.
Elon Musk has beaten an astronaut who called his mission to reduce two stranded NASA astronauts to a vicious online back and forth
Danish astronaut Andreas Mogsen punished the statement of Musk that former President Joe Biden Astronauts left Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, stranded
Musk did not go well for the criticism and called Mogensen 'completely r *******'
“Elon, I've admired you for a long time and what you have achieved, especially at SpaceX and Tesla,” he wrote back and took the high ground.
'You know as well as I return that Butch and Suni with crew-9, as the plan has been since last September.
'Even now you don't send a rescue ship to bring them home. They return to the Dragon Capsule and that is switched on [the International Space Station] Since last September. '
Williams and Wilmore left the earth in the Starliner capsule of Boeing at the beginning of June to the international space station with plans of an eight-day stay on the ship.
But after a problem with their capsule was identified, they were stranded.
After weeks of tests, NASA finally decided that Starliner was not safe enough to bring people back to Earth and in September the doomed spacecraft was sent home empty.
By September, SpaceX launched a crew Dragon Capsule in an attempt to save the pair. It arrived successfully at the space station, but has not yet been made available to try to return to the earth on board with them.
President Donald Trump and Musk have since given the Biden government the blame for Wilmore and Williams' stay.
Mogensen doubled his arguments despite Musk's insult
He noticed that Wilmore and Williams return to the crew-9, of which he said it is the plan since September
After taking office, Trump wrote that he and Musk had a plan to bring the duo home earlier than expected in a truth -social function.
“I just asked Elon Musk and SpaceX for the two brave astronauts who were almost given up by the Biden administration to 'go', Trump wrote on January 28.
'They have waited many months [the] Space Station. Elon will soon be on the road. Hopefully they are all safe. Good luck Elon !!! '
NASA then announced that the pair will return home on March 19, about two weeks earlier than the previous schedule, after the launch of the incoming crew on 12 March.
Williams and Wilmore left the earth in the Starliner capsule of Boeing at the beginning of June to the international space station with plans of an eight-day stay on the ship
Despite the setbacks, Wilmore and Williams have denied that they feel abandoned
Despite the setbacks, Wilmore and Williams have denied that they feel abandoned.
“We don't feel abandoned. We don't feel stuck. We don't feel stranded, “Wilmore told CNN. “I understand why others might think so. We are prepared.
Yet the Astronauts admitted that they had to come home, but noted that maintaining the normal cycle of Astronauts on the ISS is crucial.
This transfer period requires that a new crew takes over the ISS from the previous crew.
Williams and Wilmore's Relief Crew are mentioned as NASA Astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.
The incoming crew will meet Williams and Wilmore for a short about continuous scientific and maintenance projects that they will take over.
