Boy, you better stretch those cheeks further apart and get that tongue up in there. There's a lot more kissass that Elon deserves and I'm not hearing!

stranded astronauts from the ISS

The Facts Behind the Delayed Return of U.S. Astronauts

In response to Musk’s claims, several astronauts took to X to refute the idea that the astronauts were purposefully abandoned. Andreas Mogensen, a former SpaceX astronaut from Denmark, posted: “What a lie. And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.” In response to Mogensen, Elon replied: “You are fully rеtarded. 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.”

Mogensen responded by stating, “Elon, I have long admired you and what you have accomplished, especially at SpaceX and Tesla. You know as well as I do, that Butch and Suni are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home. They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on ISS since last September.”

Steve Stich, the program manager for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said after the determination was made that Williams and Wilmore should not return on the Boeing Starliner, NASA officials met with SpaceX officials and considered “a wide range of options” and ultimately decided to attach the astronauts to the previously scheduled Crew-9 mission.

“When we looked at the situation at the time, we had a Crew-9 launch in front of us, it made sense to take the opportunity to bring Crew-9 up with just two seats and have Butch and Suni fill in and do the rest of the long duration mission,” said Dana Weigel, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program.

“We thought the plan that we came up with made a lot of sense, and that, especially for Butch and Suni we know they’re experienced astronauts, they’re great in space,” Bowersox said. “We knew they’d be great additions to the crew and we knew that for most astronauts, spending extra time on orbit’s really a gift. And we thought they’d probably enjoy their time there. So we thought it was a good way to go … for a lot of reasons.”

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@alkbch@lemmy.ml is any of the above news to you, or were you aware of this already when you posted your "stranded astronauts from the ISS" comments?

How does that boot polish taste?

Do tankies suddenly like Musk? How is your .ml account not banned for supporting the most bourgeois man on earth? They ban people for saying trust Russia sucks and not this drivel?

Read some real journalism for a change Musk didn't do shit. He didn't start PayPal, he didn't start Tesla, spaceX has a whole layer of management DEDICATED to keeping him out of screwing anything up, and I don't think I need to add anything about X.

I never thought anyone could be so blatantly wrong on every topic, but .ml account keep teaching me lessons on the topic.

Are you bringing back stranded astronauts from the ISS?

Is Elon?

Did you lead several highly successful companies that played a major role in helping with the energy transition when virtually no others were doing it at this scale?

Did Elon? He knows how to market himself, and to pick competent employees. But is he leading and playing a major role, or is that just hype?

He's never going to touch your PP.

Keep on bootlicking, you may wake up as a billionaire

Are you a heartless monster unable of empathy, who never realised other people might be people, too?

Bad bot

Lmao what a cuck.

Boeing could do it. Russia could do it. NASA could do it before they voluntarily left the game in favor of giving hands outs to billionaires’ pet projects.

Elon is not special. He’s an oligarch and nothing more.