President Trump convicted Biden administration on Tuesday for “quit” two astronauts Those who are riding International Space Station in view of problems in the last summer With his Boeing Starlineer Capsule,
In a post for his true social platform, President Said He has asked SpaceX founder Elon Musk to “go” brave astronauts “two”, who are almost left in space by the Biden administration. They have been waiting for several months at @Space station. Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, expected everyone will be safe.
For his share, Musk wrote in one First post On his own social media platform X that Mr. Trump asked SpaceX to bring Starlineer Astronauts home as soon as possible, saying “We will do so. It is terrible that the Biden administration left him for so long.” “
Mr. Trump's post made this sound as if Musk himself is going into space, which was being planned, adding widespread confusion about this, because in question, astronauts, Starelineer Commander Barry “Buch” Wilmor and Co-pilot Sunita Williams is not. In any traditional sense, “trapped”, and “left” in space has not been “left”.
They could return to Earth at NASA at any time, so it decides that a spacex crew is riding in a dragon capsule. Two station crew members were taken Last September in orbit, especially with two vacant seats for Wilmore and Williams.
He boarded the Starlineer capsule on 5 June for the eight to 10-day mission. This was a Stareller's first pilot flight, an important step towards the initial service of SpaceX's crew dragon as the operating option.
But flight Was married Propalent leaks and pressure problems with Starliner's propulsion system.
After several extensions to test and analyze, NASA Manager Decided on 24 August To leave Wilmore and Williams at the station for an extended migration, Bringing Starlineer Under remote control, without its crew, on 7 September. There was no major problem.
The decision to place Wilmore and Williams at the station was based on a risk evaluation by NASA management and wanted to reduce long distance disruption for the crew's rotation and cargo delivery missions carefully choreographed.
In any case, in view of NASA's decision, SpaceX launched the four-seat dragon spacecraft for the space station on 28 September, with only two crew members along with Nick Hegs and Cosmonot Alexander Gorbunov of NASA along -Two seats are available for Vilmore and Williams.
NASA opted for Hague and Gourbunov to complete a normal long -term stay, which launched with the expectation of returning to Earth with Wilmor and Williams in late February. All this was known last September.
The return flight was later delayed in an additional month either SpaceX was given more time to prepare a new crew dragon capsule, which is a replacement crew – crew 10 – The first flight was for launch for launch.
As it now stands, Crew 9 Commander Hague, Gorbunov, Wilmor and Williams are expecting to return to Earth in late March. By that point, two Starlineer astronauts must have logged into space for about 300 days. Both astronauts have said that they understand NASA's decision to expand their mission.
As the founder of SpaceX, Musk was definitely aware of the decisions when he was created and argued behind him. The Starlineer Crew's decision to stay in space has not reported any direct participation of the Biden administration, and Kasturi did not criticize NASA's decision at that time.
As the Starlineer crew may mean “early” to return to Earth, the only clear answer would be to bring the Hague, Gorbunov, Wilmor and Williams down before the schedule. They will not need to come to anyone.
But an early departure would overtake a single American astronaut at the space station: Don Petit, who launched in the laboratory with two Russian crews with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft last year.
Then NASA will have only one astronaut at the station to operate the multi-model US segment of the lab, possibly stopping research in its track until the crew 10 can not ride on the dragon of the next crew.
Rumors indicate that crew 10 dragons may face additional delays. NASA could opt for the next station crew to move the crew to a crew dragon, which was placed for a commercial trip at the station carrying a crew sponsored by the Houston -based Obom Space. This crew can be taken back to 9 for a few days, but not from any significant amount.
A crew dragon that will be used for a commercial space tourism flight around the Earth's poles, this spring is not considered an alternative because it is not equipped with a space station docking mechanism.