Musk hits back at astronaut who called his space station mission a 'lie' in vicious online back and

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Musk hits back at astronaut who called his space station mission a 'lie' in vicious online back and fourth

Daily Mail
By MELISSA KOENIG
21 February 2025



Elon Musk has been caught up in an ugly online spat after an astronaut blasted his mission to return two stranded NASA astronauts as a 'lie.'

The SpaceX founder vowed on Wednesday to return Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, to Earth 'within about four weeks' as he hit out at the Biden administration for abandoning them in space in an interview with Sean Hannity.

'They were left up there for political reasons, which is not good,' Musk claimed in the interview, with Trump adding '[Biden] was going to leave them in space. I think he was going to leave them in space.'

But Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who in 2023 piloted a mission for SpaceX, rebuked the claim.

'What a lie,' the 48-year-old European Space Agency astronaut wrote on X. 'And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.' 

Musk did not take well to the criticism, calling Mogensen 'fully r*******.

'SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused. Return WAS pushed back for political reasons. Idiot.'

Still, Mogensen doubled down on his criticism of Musk's claim.

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Wilmore and Williams should uphold Democratic Party principles and refuse to ride on that MAGA capsule.