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Business mogul and CEO Elon Musk took a jab at President Joe Biden on Sunday, the day after his private spaceflight, SpaceX, completed a historic mission as the first all-civilian flight crew.
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Musk responded on Twitter to a user who asked about Biden. The follower commented: "The President of the United States has refused to even acknowledge the 4 newest American astronauts who helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for St. Jude. What's your theory on why that is?"
Musk's short response was hardly subtle. "He's still sleeping," he tweeted back .
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The lack of support from Biden came after NASA officials and even Musk's rival Jeff Bezos all congratulated SpaceX, which safely returned its Crew Dragon spacecraft from orbit on Saturday. It was carrying four members of the Inspiration4 mission – the first-ever non-professional astronaut crew – back to Earth after spending three days in space.
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Musk helped raise more than $200 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital with the effort. With the all-civilian crew, the mission also featured the first Black woman to serve as a spacecraft pilot, the youngest American to become an astronaut to date, and the first person to fly in space with a prosthesis.
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Musk's "still sleeping" mock of Biden mirrors taunts made by former President Donald Trump, who often called Biden "sleepy Joe" during the 2020 presidential campaign . The Tesla CEO has pledged in the past to "stay out of politics" and SpaceX has kept a strong relationship with the federal government, having recently won a $2.89 billion contract to build NASA's next crewed lunar lander.
Prior to Biden taking office, however, SpaceX went under investigation by the Department of Justice following accusations of discrimination against job applicants based on citizenship status.
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In this photo provided by Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, bottom center, and his crew members experience zero gravity aboard his winged rocket ship on Sunday, July 11, 2021. Branson and five crewmates from his Virgin Galactic space-tourism company reached an altitude of about 53 miles over the New Mexico desert — enough to experience three to four minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth.
The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership separate as they fly way above Spaceport America, near Truth and Consequences, N.M. on July 11, 2021 on the way to the cosmos.
The Virgin Galactic rocket plane, with founder Richard Branson and other crew members on board, lands back in Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, N.M., Sunday, July 11, 2021.
New Shepard NS-14, a Blue Origin a suborbital rocket system, lifts off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Jan. 14, 2021. Jeff Bezos confirmed Monday, June 7, 2021 he and his brother, Mark, will ride on the first human flight of New Shepard developed by his aerospace company Blue Origin. The launch is scheduled for July 20, 2021, the 52nd anniversary of the 1969 Apollo moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Participants enjoy the Blue Origin Space Simulator during the Amazon Re:MARS conference on robotics and artificial intelligence in Las Vegas, Nev. on June 5, 2019.
This undated illustration provided by Blue Origin shows the capsule that the company aims to take tourists into space. Jeff Bezos' rocket company is already calling its future clients "astronauts."
New Shepard on the launch pad the morning of Mission 9, July 18, 2018.
Jeff Bezos speaks in front of a model of Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander, Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Washington.
New Shepard Crew Capsule without a crew on board lands in the West Texas desert after a successful mission to space on April 14, 2021.
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA; The Crew-2 astronauts walk out of their quarters for transport to the launch pad Friday, April 23, 2021. Thomas Pesquet, Aki Hoshide, Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough travelled to the International Space Station.
This handout image released on April 28, 2021 courtesy of NASA, shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour as it approached the International Space Station less than one day after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 24, 2021. The SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts, Commander Shane Kimbrough and pilot Megan McArthur with astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, joined the Expedition 65 crew shortly after docking to the Harmony module's forward-facing international docking adapter.
The mannequin astronaut Starman launched into space in 2018 by SpaceX has traveled past Mars, the aerospace company revealed. Starman, which launched aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., sitting in the driver's seat of a Tesla Roadster, has journeyed beyond the Red Planet, according to a tweet from SpaceX posted in Nov. 2018. "Next stop, the restaurant at the end of the universe," said SpaceX, a reference to the series "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Space enthusiasts look at a prototype of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft at the company's Texas launch facility on September 28, 2019 in Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas. The Starship spacecraft is a massive vehicle meant to take people to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
In this image from video made available by SpaceX, one of the company's Starship prototypes fires its thrusters as it lands during a test in Boca Chica, Texas, on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. SpaceX’s futuristic Starship looked like it aced a touchdown, but then exploded on the landing pad with so much force that it was hurled into the air. The failure occurred just minutes after SpaceX declared success.
Law enforcement officials take a closer look at the wreckage near the site where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif. Saturday, Nov 1, 2014. The explosion killed a pilot aboard and seriously injured another while scattering wreckage in Southern California's Mojave Desert, witnesses and officials said.
A woman, on of some 300 potential space tourists who have already paid some or all of the $250,000 fare, waves her arms as if flying in front of SpaceShipTwo at a Virgin Galactic hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. Potential space tourists gathered in California's Mojave Desert to see the latest progress from Briton Richard Branson's space tourism enterprise. The company has been testing SpaceShipTwo designed to take paying passengers into space. Commercial flights will begin once testing is complete.
British billionaire Richard Branson poses for photographs in the window of a replica of the Virgin Galactic, the world's first commercial spaceline, at the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, southern England, on July 11, 2012. Virgin Galactic announced "LauncherOne," a new air-launched rocket specifically designed to deliver small satellites into orbit.
Guests stand outside the new Spaceport America hangar in Upham, N.M. on Oct. 17, 2011.
Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnight2 flies over the Mojave, Calif. area with the SpaceShip2 spacecraft on July 15, 2010.
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