NASA Astronaut Taunts Elon Musk for Cowardice

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is continuing to burn bridges with the space community. One former astronaut is even challenging him to step foot in a rocket himself — a cutting dig at Musk, since even though he's made establishing an interplanetary presence for humankind his life's goal, he's never actually traveled to space himself. "Hey Elon Musk, when you finally get the nerve to climb into a rocket ship, come talk to the three of us," tweeted former NASA astronaut and current US senator Mark Kelly. To understand the squad of former astronauts Kelly was talking about, it's important to understand that Musk has been brewing unprecedently bad blood with the space-traveling community since earlier this month, when he claimed that astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who became stranded on board the International Space Station due to the failure of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, "were left up there for political reasons." The unfounded claim — the pair's return flight next month was pl ... Read full article.