Elon Musk has made unfounded claims that two NASA astronauts were left on the space station for "political reasons" after their Boeing spacecraft ran into problems.

Two astronauts have refuted Elon Musk's claims that two NASA staff were abandoned on the International Space Station.

Elon Musk went straight to the slurs after being called out yet again for saying that astronauts have been stranded on the International Space Station by the Biden administration for “political reasons”—a lie that astronauts themselves have repeatedly debunked.

The billionaire used an offensive word for people with intellectual disabilities while lashing out at Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen.

Elon Musk called an astronaut “fully retarded” during a Thursday social media argument about two people he claimed had been abandoned in space by the Biden administration. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been on the International Space State since last June.