Elon Musk in row with Danish astronaut over claim Biden abandoned ISS pair

<p>Musk claimed without evidence Nasa’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were left stranded on orbital outpost for ‘political reasons’</p><p>Elon Musk has become embroiled in<strong> </strong>a heated row with a Danish astronaut who criticised the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/16/elon-musk-doge-government-privatization">tech billionaire</a>’s claim that the former US president Joe Biden abandoned two American astronauts at the International Space Station on purpose.</p><p>Andreas “Andy” Mogensen accused Musk of lying when he claimed in a Fox News interview alongside Donald Trump that Nasa’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/30/nasa-stuck-astronauts-spacewalk">Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams</a> were left stranded for “political reasons” by Biden.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/21/elon-musk-butch-wilmore-suni-williams-nasa-astronaut-iss-claims-biden">Continue reading...</a>