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.