President Trump blames the Biden administration on Tuesday for “abandoning” astronauts Those stuck on board International Space Station in the wake of problems last summer With Boeing Starliner capsule.
In a publication to his social platform, the president He said He asked the founder of Spacex Elusk “to go to” brave astronauts “who were almost abandoned in space by the Biden administration. They were waiting for several months at the Space Station. Elon will be on his way soon. Everything will be safe.
For his part, he wrote musk in Earlier On his social media platform X that Mr. Trump has asked Spacex to obtain Starliner astronauts as soon as possible, adding, “We’ll do that. Biden administration has left them there for a long time.”
The position of Mr. Trump has made it look like Moses himself to go to space, adding to a widespread confusion about what has been planned, partly because the astronauts concerned, the leader of Starlener Barry “Poach” Poach “, the co -co -William Williams, are not” stranded “with any Traditional meaning, and it has not been abandoned in space.
They can return to Earth at any time when NASA decides, and they will ride them in a dragon capsule from Spacex Crew Dragon Carry two members of the station crew To the orbit last September with two empty seats specifically Lilmore and Williams.
They exploded on the Starlener capsule on June 5 on a mission of eight to 10 days. It was the first experimental trip from Starliner, a basic step towards starting the service as a operating alternative to Spacex’s Crew Dragon.
But the trip He was a young man By leaking motivated and pressure problems with the Starliner payment system.
After multiple accessories for testing and analyzes, NASA managers He decided on August 24 To leave Willmore and Williams on board the station for extended stay, Starlener dropping Under remote control, without its crew, on September 7. There were no major problems.
The decision to keep Wilmore and Williams Aloft on the station by NASA administration based on risk assessment and a desire to reduce long -term disorder to the carefully designed timetable for the rotation of the crew and goods delivery missions.
However, in the aftermath of NASA’s decision, Spacex launched a spacecraft of four-seat crew to the space station on September 28 with just two crew members on board-nick-NAHI from NASA and astronauts Williams.
NASA has chosen a long -term natural residence by The Hague and Jorbonov, who were launched with the expectation of a return to Earth at the end of February with Wilmor and Williams. All this was known last September.
The return trip was later for an additional month or so to give Spacex more time to prepare the Dragon Crew Crew New Launch capsule on its first trip to an alternative crew – 10 crew – to the station.
As now, crew commander 9 The Hague, Jourbonov, Wilmore and Williams expect to return to Earth at the end of March. By this point, Starliner’s astronauts had registered about 300 days in space. Both astronauts said they understood the decision of NASA to extend their mission.
As the founder of Spacex, Musk was definitely aware of these decisions when they were made and the logical basis behind them. There were no reports of any direct participation of the Biden administration in the decisions of extending the Starlener crew in space, and Musk has not made any criticism of NASA’s decision at that time.
As for what the Starliner crew to the ground “as soon as possible”, the only clear answer is to bring in the Hague, Jourbonov, Willimore and Williams before the specified date. They will not need anyone to come to them.
But early departure will leave one American astronaut behind the space station: Don Betette, who started to the laboratory last year on a Russian spacecraft with Russian crew.
After that, NASA will have only one space pioneer on the station to run the American multi -unit part of the laboratory, most likely to stop research in its paths so that the 10 crew can reach the next crew dragon.
Rumors indicate that the 10 Dragon crew may face additional delays. NASA can choose to transfer the next station crew to a dragon dedicated to a commercial trip to the station bearing a Houston -based Axiom Space crew. This may move the crew 9 after a few days, but not in any large amount.
It is not believed that the crew dragon to be used on a tourist journey on the territory of the Earth this spring is not believed to be an option because it is not equipped with a mechanism for anchoring station.
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