In a Tuesday evening X post, Iron Musk told Rocket Company SpaceX to bring it back to his house as soon as possible.
In fact, SpaceX is already planning to bring these two astronauts back home, but we are earlier than in late March and with the other two astronauts currently on board.
A few hours later, Mr. Trump said in his own post about the truth social on the website, saying, “Eron will be his path soon,” and requested a request without setting a return travel time. I confirmed it.
On Wednesday afternoon, NASA states in a statement that Williams and Willmore are working to “practically immediately” and are preparing a mission to nurture the next astronaut group. Masu.
In order to avoid the shortage of personnel at the space station, NASA usually sends a replacement crew before the current astronauts leave.
However, the statement of the agency did not clarify the meaning of “practically immediately.”
Astronaut Sni Williams and Butch Willmore docked the space station in June. It was not expected that their trip would last a long time in the orbit than one to two weeks as part of the test flight of the Boeing Starliner spaceship. However, because the Starliner promotion system was malfunctioning while traveling there, NASA repeatedly extended his pair because he tried to know what the engineer was wrong.
In his post, Musk added, “It's terrible that the Biden administration has left them for a long time.”
In his true social post, Trump reflects his emotions, claiming that Williams and Willmore have “effectively abandoned the Biden administration in space.”
In fact, the space station has been supplemented four times since the arrival of two people, and Williams is the current commander of the Space Station.
Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator in the Biden administration, did not respond to e -mails for comments.
Because of the anxiety of the vehicle, NASA officials decided that the Starliner would return to Earth without Willmore, who stayed in track as a part of Williams and Space Station crew. At that time, Nelson stated that the most important concerns of NASA's officials were Williams and Willmore's security.
The Star Liner landed on September 7 without any problems.
ORBIT's two extra astronaut led NASA and his international partner, juggling the next crew heading to the SpaceX Crew Dragon Space Station, a mission called Crew-9.
Astronauts usually spend about six months at the space station and return to the same spaceship that flew to get there. However, as Williams and Willmore were no longer home, two of the four astronauts initially assigned to Crew 9 were left on the ground when the mission started on September 28. It was done. Wilmore was expected in February.
If the crew-9 astronauts return early before the next astronauts are released, it may hinder the scientific research of the space station and overwhelm small passengers in an emergency. There is.
If something on the NASA side of the previous POST base is broken and needs a spaceship to repair, there is only one NASA astronaut (Don Petite) to execute the task. It is dangerous because the spaceship is usually performed in pairs. Two Russian astronauts on board may be useful, but these systems are not very familiar.
In the next astronaut's release, SPACEX plans to use a new crew dragon.
However, in December, NASA announced that SPACEX took a lot of time to complete the production and testing of new capsules, and that Williams and Willmore returned to late March.
NASA avoided astronaut “standing”, as Musk did in his post. The space agency repeatedly claimed that Williams and Willmore were healthy, and their long stay was within the scope of other astronauts in orbit.
Speed up your return can provide difficult options for NASA staff. Until the new crew dragon arrives, instead of the normal seven complements, only three astronauts (two Russians, one American) are short of staff. I was able to leave it as it was.
As a rule, NASA may have been able to return to other astronauts launched in September in September. But if those astronauts need to evacuate, they will leave without way to return to the earth.
Or, SPACEX can use one of the elderly dragons, perhaps a private mission operated by Houston's AXIOM Space, and the possibility of hitting an astronaut from flight to space station in spring. There is.
