{"id":13669,"date":"2025-03-02T17:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diigital.press\/?p=13669"},"modified":"2025-03-02T17:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T17:53:06","slug":"elon-musk-explodes-at-famed-astronaut-after-being-called-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/?p=13669","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk explodes at famed astronaut after being called a liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1334\" class=\"post-1334 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Elon Musk has sparked controversy by claiming NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were kept aboard the ISS \u201cfor political reasons.\u201d His remarks, made during a Fox News interview with Donald Trump, were quickly refuted by European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who called Musk\u2019s claim false,<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1588980\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The debate escalated as Musk insulted Mogensen and former astronaut Scott Kelly, who defended NASA\u2019s decision. NASA reaffirmed that safety, not politics, dictated the delay, explaining that Williams and Wilmore would return on a SpaceX Crew Dragon as planned. The astronauts themselves dismissed claims they were \u201cabandoned,\u201d emphasizing their mission remains on track.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1588979\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-tags\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments-area\">\n<div id=\"respond\" class=\"comment-respond\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has sparked controversy by claiming NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were kept aboard the ISS \u201cfor political reasons.\u201d His remarks, made during a Fox News interview with Donald Trump, were quickly refuted by European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who called Musk\u2019s claim false, &nbsp; &nbsp; The debate escalated as Musk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}