Elon Musk launches scathing assault on ISS commander

Tech billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk used a nasty slur towards the Worldwide Area Station commander when the latter referred to as him out on social media for mendacity concerning the astronauts who’re stranded in area.

“What a lie,” commander Andreas Mogensen wrote on X, including, “And from somebody who complains concerning the lack of honesty from the mainstream media.”

The heated trade was provoked by Musk’s claims in an unique joint interview with US President Donald Trump on Sean Hannity’s Fox Information present the place Trump gushed over Musk’s genius. 

When Sean Hannity insinuated that the astronauts onboard the defective Boeing Starliner had been deserted, Musk affirmed with a “sure.”

“They had been left up there for political causes, which isn’t good,” Musk claimed.

He’s referring to NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, US Navy take a look at pilots who didn’t return to Earth in the course of the Boeing Flight Crew Check because it was deemed too dangerous because of the spacecraft’s technical points.

Musk lashed out at Mogensen, calling him “totally retarded.”

“SpaceX might have introduced them again a number of months in the past. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration they usually refused,” Musk alleged.

He stated that the return of the astronauts was “pushed again for political causes” earlier than hitting out at Mogensen by calling him an “fool.”

Mogensen had a cultured response.

“Elon, I’ve lengthy admired you and what you’ve achieved, particularly at SpaceX and Tesla,” he stated.

“You realize in addition to I do, that Butch and Suni are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since final September. Even now, you aren’t sending up a rescue ship to carry them house. They’re returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on ISS since final September,” he clarified, to which Musk issued a warning.

Inside a couple of minutes, he debased “this so-called commander” earlier than threatening to deorbit the ISS “as quickly as potential.”

“It’s time to start preparations for deorbiting the @Space_Station,” he wrote, including, “It has served its function. There may be little or no incremental utility. Let’s go to Mars.”