NASA astronaut Sunita Williams disagrees with Elon Musk's suggestion to deorbit the International Space Station sooner than planned, advocating for its operation until 2030 due to its ongoing scientific contributions.
"If NASA had the failure rate SpaceX does, Elon Musk would be firing everyone and Congress would be demanding to know where the money is going."
The NASA astronauts stranded aboard the ISS said they received "no information" about Elon Musk's supposed plans to rescue them sooner.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow lambasted Elon Musk Thursday night, following the explosion of the latter's latest SpaceX Starship rocket.
Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are due to return home on a Crew Dragon spacecraft in a couple of weeks. For two of the crew members, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, it has been a long, strange trip. Wilmore and Williams launch on the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 5, 2024
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, Musk’s company, SpaceX, launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.
Elon Musk said in a post on X that US President Donald Trump ‘asked to bring them back as soon as possible, and we are doing so.’
President Donald Trump said that he asked "a favor" of Elon Musk to retrieve astronauts on the ISS. The plan to bring them back has been in place since September.