January 29, 2025
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Trump asks SPACEX to return NASA’s “Standing” astronaut as soon as possible to the earth.
Despite the recent demands from Trump, NASA’s astronaut Sni Williams and Butch Willmore are planning to return to the earth with the crew’s dragon capsule this spring.
International Space Station of NASA astronaut SUNI WILLIAMS and Butch Willmore.
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Well, this is like a head scratcher.
On Tuesday evening (January 28), President Donald Trump has announced that it has another task of the SPACEX founder and CEO Elon Musk.
“I just asked Elon Musk and @spacex to” go “two brave astronauts, effectively abandoned by the Biden administration. They were waiting for months at the Space Station. Hopefully, everything is safe !!! “Trump wrote on his true social platform posts. The message was also published on X, a social media site owned by the mask.
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Probably Trump means Sni Williams and Butch Willmore of NASA, who has lived in the orbital lab since June 2024.
They arrived at the first crew of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. However, Starliner has a problem in the thrusters, and NASA extended the orbit between Williams and Willmore, and Boeing studied the problem.
In August, the agency decided not to put a duo on a star liner for a return trip. The capsule has not returned to the earth (went without any problems in September), Wilmore and Williams have returned to the SPACEX crew dragon capsule. 。
With this decision, some crew members shuffled. NASA originally removed two astronauts from four crew 9 launches, and Wilmore and Williams had to open space with a downward foot. (Both Starliner astronauts are healthy and healthy, and NASA officials have said that there are many supplies to support them until the end of their stay).
Trump did not mention this existing home plan in his post. In addition, we did not even mask the president’s request before it was published in X.
“@Potus asked @spacex as soon as possible to bring back two astronauts left in @space_station. We do so.
It is unknown in this context what “as soon as possible” means. Crew 9 was originally scheduled to return home in late February, but the timeline was pushed back at least one month, so SpaceX to prepare a crew dragon flying four crew-10 missions to ISS. You can complete the work. 。 The crew-10 dragon is the latest vehicle (not a flight and a proven vehicle), and the company wants a little more time to check everything.
Does Musk mean that SPACEX is ready for the crew-10 to work to bring crew 9 to your house? NASA is probably not very satisfied with the plan, as ARS Technica’s Eric Berger pointed out. Don Petits remains as the only NASA astronaut along ISS. He has to do many science and operation work alone until reinforcements arrive.
Or can Spacex be able to switch the dragon of the crew-10, replace the flight with a proven track record, and make the previous release possible? After all, four crew dragons have previously entered and out of astronauts in the company -Efforts, endurance, freedom, and recovery. (Freedom is already in ISS because it is flying on 9 missions.)
It is also possible that Trump and Masks, which are very close to the president, are mainly politics in that situation. In the end, they both blamed the Biden administration for an extended ISS stay in Williams and Willmore.
Or maybe they are simply trolling. I really like both men, probably the most powerful people in the world.
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