What's Really Happening With Elon Musk and Those ‘Stranded’ Astronauts?
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Summary
In 2024, two NASA astronauts were left at the International Space Station (ISS) after a technical issue with their spacecraft.
Following this, comments were made by both President Trump and the founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, which insinuated that the Biden administration had delayed the return of the astronauts for political reasons.
The latest comments from Musk claim that he offered the Biden administration the chance to bring the astronauts home but that the offer was refused, while Trump said that their return was accelerated at his request.
The Director of Space Operations Mission Directorate, Ken Bowersox, and manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, Steve Stich, have now stated that the decision to not bring the astronauts home last year was made for budgetary and logistical reasons, and not for political ones.
The astronauts are now due to return home in a SpaceX-built Crew Dragon as part of the Crew 10 mission in the next few weeks.
