MSNBC's Rachel Maddow lambasted Elon Musk Thursday night, following the explosion of the latter's latest SpaceX Starship rocket.
The NASA astronauts stranded aboard the ISS said they received "no information" about Elon Musk's supposed plans to rescue them sooner.
SpaceX has blown up another Starship mega rocket on a test flight. Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, 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.
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
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.’
Musk has expressed his desire to redirect NASA to a neck-or-nothing lunge toward Mars, leaving all other priorities such as going back to the moon on the back burner.