Billionaire and Technology Titan Elon Musk shared congratulations to Spacex and NASA -i after Rescue of two astronauts Stranded at the International Space Station for about the last nine months.
“Thanks to the excellent work of the Spacex team, which works with NASA, astronauts are now safe at home. And so we congratulate the Spacex NASA’s teams on excellent work,” Musk said during an exclusive interview about it about it “Hannity” on Tuesday.
The founder of the Spacex -a face of the Department of the Efficiency of the Government (Doge) also offered “tremendous gratitude to President Donald Trump” for the priority and acceleration of return. “
Astronauti Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been at the International Space Station since June 2024. Their mission should only last a week after launching the first Boein’s astronaut flight. However, after the spacecraft encountered technical questions, and NASA found that it was uncertain to return to Earth with astronauts on board, Wilmore and Williams had remained stuck at the International Space Station for months.
Wilmore, Williams, Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov on Tuesday returned to the ground, lowered from the Florida coast just before 6:00 pm.
Wilmore and Williams’ return became the political issue of Trump’s administration, and Musk had previously told the host Fox News News Hannity on February 18 that Biden had left astronauts in space for “political reasons”.
Shortly after taking over duty, Trump borrowed Musk with a home of two astronauts, which he said were “abandoned” by the Administration of Bidun.
Trump also blown up former President Joe Biden that he had not acted before.
“I just asked Elona Musk and @spacex to ‘go to’ take ‘two brave astronauts that the bidel administration practically left in space. They waited for months at the @space station for several months. Elon will start soon. I hope everything will be safe. Good luck Elon !!!” Published Trump at that time.
At a press conference after land with Spacex and NASA officials on Tuesday, Deputy Administrator of Associates, OUR Space Operations Administration Joel Montalbano wondered about Trump’s and Musk’s claims that the Administration of Biden did not want to return the Starliner crew for political reasons.
“Yes, so I was not involved in any conversations with the previous administration,” Montalbano said. “It was clear that we had a request from the current administration, and the results you saw were what we saw today with the landing of Crew-9.”
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Hannity pressed Musk about politics behind the astronaut ‘ Delayed return, and Musk set a record directly to its communication with the previous Biden administration.
“We definitely offered to return astronauts earlier. There is no doubt about it,” Musk said.
“Astronauts were just about eight days there, and they were there for almost ten months. So obviously, it doesn’t make sense. Spacex could have returned astronauts after a few months, and we made that offer a bidet administration. It was rejected for political reasons, which is just a fact.”
Fox News’ Jonathan Serrie, Landon Mion, Diana Stancy, Christina Shaw and Reuters contributed to this report.
