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.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday alleged that the return of the astronauts who went to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing Co's Starliner spacecraft last year- Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore- was delayed owing to "political reasons.

Boeing has been having some major problems lately and Elon Musk is offering a helping hand. Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Tweeted that “Maybe already under control,

The president and his right-hand man baselessly accused Joe Biden of stranding Boeing astronauts on the ISS for political reasons.

Boeing (NYSE:BA) has the help of Elon Musk in satisfying the requirements to deliver two new Air Force One jets after U.S. President Donald Trump complained about the program, the planemaker's chief executive,

Over the years, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Washington Post

Humans have been living continuously in space for nearly 25 years, with astronauts and cosmonauts living aboard the spacecraft since astronaut Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev first boarded the International Space Station (ISS) on Halloween, 2000.

Trump has been vocal about Boeing’s delays in delivering jets, particularly for the US government. He’s now calling on Musk, who has no direct ties to Boeing but is a major player in the aerospace industry, to use his influence to push the company to speed up production.

Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen criticized Elon Musk for blaming the Biden White House for two astronauts being marooned on the International Space Station.