The saga of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams is back on the news.
Stranded for more than eight months in space after the Boeing Starliner capsule was plagued by endless safety issues and had to return to Earth empty, they are now to be brought back by SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft around mid-March.
But why did they stay up there so long? Trump and Musk discussed the issue yesterday (18) in a Fox News interview hosted by Sean Hannity.
Elon Musk suggested the two astronauts were left stranded there for ‘political reasons’. He said SpaceX was ‘accelerating the return of the astronauts’ as per Trump’s instructions.
Forbes reported:
“’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’.”
Watch: Trump and Musk on the stranded Astronauts.
Musk: “At the President’s instruction, we are accelerating the return of the [NASA] astronauts [stranded on the International Space Station].”
Trump: “They didn’t have the go-ahead with Biden. He was going to leave them in space!” pic.twitter.com/4lSVoD1zvt
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) February 19, 2025
What can be understood from the inference is that the Joe Biden administration from hell didn’t want to hand Musk and SpaceX this ‘win’, and further wanted the stranded space crew to become a ‘Trump problem’.
Being careful not to look complacent, Musk nevertheless said that his company has ‘brought astronauts back from the space station many times before, and always with success’.”
After the ‘go-ahead’ from Trump, Wilmore and Williams are now expected to return in about four weeks.
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Trump: “They didn’t have the go-ahead with Biden. He was going to leave them in space. I think he was going to leave them in space…He didn’t want the publicity. Can you believe it?”
The Forbes report keeps trying to contrast Trump’s and Musk’s statements with sad denials from the astronauts that say: ‘we are not stranded’.
Besides the fact that they are heroic team-players who would never complain in public, they also could not have the slightest idea of the goings-on between Biden and his NASA leadership.
“Wilmore said, ’We don’t feel abandoned. We don’t feel stuck. We don’t feel stranded. I understand why others may think that. We come prepared. We come committed’.”
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