Musk: Astronauts Were Stranded For “Political Reasons”

Forbes reports:

Musk appeared alongside Trump in a Fox News interview hosted by Sean Hannity on Tuesday and asked about the planned “rescue” of the two astronauts, who the Fox News anchor claimed were “abandoned” by the previous administration.

The billionaire SpaceX CEO said his company was “accelerating the return of the astronauts” as per Trump’s instructions. Musk then appeared to take a shot at the Biden administration, saying the move was “postponed kind of to a ridiculous degree,” before the president chimed in saying “they got left in space.”

When Hannity pointed out the astronauts have been on the ISS for almost 300 days instead of the planned 8 days, Trump simply said “Biden,” before Musk claimed they were “left up there for political reasons, which is not good.”

Read the full article. Last week the astronauts themselves denied such claims in a live-stream from the space station, noting that SpaceX and the Biden administration agreed on the plan to return them months ago.

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