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Originally Posted by activeStick
Is there any truth to Biden's camp declining Musk's offer to send help to bring them home?
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Pretty much nothing they say is true, so it's a good bet that this isn't true either.
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Originally Posted by Robbob
I am pretty sure it was reported that SpaceX asked for more time before launching and Biden said sure.
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NASA said that they approached SpaceX to contract them for the retrieval, and SpaceX hemmed and hawed and said they need more time. Musk obviously wanted to wait to maximize the political angle.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/scien...cex/index.html
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In a post on the social media platform X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed Tuesday that the Biden Administration left two astronauts “stranded” and said President Donald Trump has asked SpaceX to step in to rescue them.
But NASA already put such a plan in place months ago when it asked SpaceX to return astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station as part of its Crew-9 mission. A delay in that plan was then announced in December because mission teams said they needed more time to prepare a new SpaceX vehicle.
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