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.

Two astronauts have refuted Elon Musk's claims that two NASA staff were abandoned on the International Space Station.

NASA, alongside agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, and Russia, has long planned to retire the ISS at the end of the decade. A deorbit vehicle, expected to be developed by SpaceX, will guide the station to a controlled descent,