SpaceX founder Elon Musk ridiculed US President Joe Biden, who did not react in any way to the historic flight of the Crew Dragon into space: for the first time there were only space tourists on board. The flight ended on September 18, but the American leader did not say anything about this. Musk assumed that Biden was simply overslept.
“The President of the United States refused to even recognize the four people who helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the St. Jude Children's Research Medical Center as astronauts. What's your theory, why? ” Ælectric Cyberfarmer tweeted.
Elon Musk answered him: “He is still sleeping.”
Earlier in the US election race at that time, President Donald Trump nicknamed his rival Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe.” During various events, the future American leader sometimes fell asleep, and this fell into the lenses of television cameras.
SpaceX launched Crew Dragon on September 16. There were no professional astronauts in the crew at all. The team included 29-year-old doctor at Children's Hospital Hayley Arsenault, 51-year-old geology professor Cyanne Proctor, 41-year-old Lockheed Martin aerospace corporation Christopher Sembroski and 38-year-old American billionaire Jared Isaacman, who owns payment service for restaurants and hotels Shift4 Payments. He paid for all four places on the ship, without disclosing the amount.
Shortly after landing, the astronauts announced that they had begun a charity fundraiser to support the Children's Research Medical Center in Tennessee. They want to raise $ 200 million. One of the expedition's sponsors, American businessman and flight commander Jared Isaacman, has already donated $ 100 million for this purpose. Elon Musk has promised to add $ 50 million to the fund.
Photo: NASA, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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