The fate of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched on the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 5, 2024, has become a political issue after President Donald Trump and SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the astronauts' return was held up by the Biden White House. In February, Trump and Musk appeared on FOX News. During the joint interview, the subject of Wilmore and Williams came up. They remain in space today after NASA decided it would be best they did not fly home in their malfunctioning Starliner spacecraft'but would return in a SpaceX-built Crew Dragon. After this interview, a Danish astronaut named Andreas Mogensen asserted that Musk was lying. "What a lie," Mogensen wrote on the social media site Musk owns, X. "And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media." Musk offered a caustic response to Mogensen. "You are fully retarded," Musk wrote. "SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY...
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