Elon Musk and the US President were elected President Donald Trump and guests in the sixth test of Spacex Starship, Brysville, Texas on November 19, 2024, 2024, Flight starts.
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Elon Musk (Elon Musk) and President Donald Trump Entering social media this week and announced that although NASA plans to bring the two back to space vehicles within a few months, the astronauts left at the space station must “return as soon as possible.”
Both are attributed to the previous presidential government NASA’s decision made in August return Boeing There are faults from the International Space Station with a faulty Starlineer capsule, without astronaut Butch Will and Suni Williams.
“@Potus has asked @Spacex to stay at @Space_stration and stay on 2 astronauts on @Space_stration. We will do this. It is terrible that the Bayeng government has left them there for a long time,” Musk Write on X Tuesday night.
“I just asked Elon Musk and @Spacex ‘to go’ to ” 2 brave astronauts. They were almost abandoned by the Bayeng government. They have waited for many months at @Space Station. Hope everything is. Truth socialEssence
However, it is unclear whether these statements will really change the timetable of the space bureau. There is no designated White House to order NASA to change its plan.
In the government of former President Joe Biden, a few months before Trump and Musk talked about the situation, NASA appointed SpaceX to return ISS’s Wilmore and Williams.
The agency adjusted the astronaut’s rotation: it sent it Star Cabinet Capsule is empty And deleted two astronauts from SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission to To delay the return space Wilmore and Williams were initially targeted at February.
Hurricane Milton moved forward in the scenery of Dragon Endeavor, which stopped with the International Space Station on October 9, 2024.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) did not resolve Trump and Musk’s positions in the CNBC statement on Wednesday.
A spokesman for NASA said: “NASA and SpaceX are working quickly, so as to return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronaut Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore in its practicality. At the same time, they also prepare for the speed of CREW-10 to complete “Exchange between the expedition” “” “” “”
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In the EXPEDITION 72 crew, the group was pose for group portrait on October 23, 2024.
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Although Musk and Trump claimed that astronauts were “retention” and “abandoned” on the International Space Station, NASA has a spacecraft at the station since September, and can return to the crew at any time-operated by Musk’s SpaceX Dragon capsule.
In addition, Musk’s allegations “the Biden government left them there”, and Trump said that astronauts “have been waiting for several months”, both of which have lost the situation.
To understand the situation on the ISS, it is important to note that the crew’s research laboratory rotates on the track.
For 25 years, the International Space Station has been composed of units called Expeditions. Each person usually lasts about six months, mainly a combination of American and Russian crew members. Since SpaceX began to airplane regularly in 2020, the agency dispatched four astronauts at a time. Each group was working until the next step to reach the International Space Station. At that time, the crew departing returned to the earth and had a “transfer” of the ceremony.
NASA believes that the Boeing Stalinna is too risky to return to Wilmore and Williams. Initially, Starline was expected to be about nine days in space, but it took about three months on ISS, and Boeing investigated the problem of capsule pusher.
Instead, it decided to start the astronaut Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson from the SpaceX crew 9 mission in September. This means that Wilmore and Williams are already on the International Space Station Adventure 72Essence Then, they will return to SpaceX dragons with astronauts Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
especially, NASA has been postponed recently From February, the Crew-10 mission of SpaceX began until late March. The agency said SpaceX needs more time to “complete” the newly built dragon capsule.
NASA Astronaut Butch Wilmore, Weles and Suni Williams set up Boeing Starliner in the cabin, connecting it to the International Space Station
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Earlier this month NASA Broadcast Discussion With the astronauts of the International Space Station, including Williams and Wilmore.
“So, what you want to tell us is that you are not guiding ‘abandoning’, without volleyball with handprints, do you call Wilson?” At that time, Pam Melroy, deputy director of NASA, asked the crew.
“No, we have a whole team here, so we don’t worry about this, there are many things to do … Wilmore said.
Wilmore added: “It is really fun to work here,” just showing with her NASA showing how to simultaneously flip in zero gravity.
