Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly called out Fox News during a live appearance on the network, Tuesday after Greg Gutfeld blamed former President Joe Biden for the two astronauts who were left on the International Space Station for nine months after their space capsule malfunctioned.
Asked by Fox News host Bret Baier about the landing of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were only supposed to be in space for just eight days, Kelly said:
Bret, before I talk about that, let me say something. I was watching your previous program, The Five, and they’re talking about abandoned– they were stranded by President Biden. That is not true. They have had a spacecraft up there since September that was going to bring them home. They have always had a ride home and the decision to keep them up there had nothing to do with politics, it was just the fact that you need crew members to operate the space station and they were the two that were there, and you had to send up a vehicle with two empty seats, so the safest thing to do was to just leave them there. But they weren’t stranded. They always had a ride home.
He continued, “Now, they were only supposed to be there for eight days, so to answer your question, yeah, it’s mentally challenging to go on a mission where you think it might be eight days, you know it could be longer because it’s the first flight of a vehicle and sometimes there are problems, and NASA made the right choice to keep them up there longer, and that...
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