For the reason ELON MUSK, the founder of SPACEX, took him to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to confuse the space -based declaration.
“@Potus asked @spacex to take two astronauts left in @space_station as soon as possible. I will do so.” I wrote the mask。 “It’s terrible that the Biden administration left them for a long time.”
At present, in Ars Technica, it is not our policy to strictly write stories based on what Elon Musk is talking about X. However, this statement is very declarative, and there is a little explanation that it will be surprising to NASA.
First of all, the most plausible explanation about this is that Elon is Elon. “He is trolling,” said one of my best spacecraft information sources right after the tweet of the mask. After all, the tweet was sent in the central time zone at 4:20 pm. In this time zone, SPACEX has its headquarters.
Even if it is trolling, it causes a headache in NASA.
Above all, NASA has spent considerable lengths to emphasize that two astronauts (butch Willmore and SUNI WILLIAMS) are not stuck in the International Space Station. 。 There are several debates whether the pair that flew to the Space Station of the Boeing Star Liner car was temporarily stuck last summer. The mission was struggling with technical issues, such as the problem of the Starliner promotion system. (Finally, Star Liner I flew home without a crew。 ) Wilmore and Williams have returned home safely since the Nine Mission of SPACEX, with two empty seats, arrived in late September. Dragon cars are currently docked on the space station.
Later, one of the largest microphones in the world appeared, shouting that NASA astronauts are stuck and that President Trump wants to save them. It is a public bomb for the founder of SPACEX, who has become a close advisor to Trump.
Also, there is a possibility that the mask has not trolled, and Trump may have asked SPACEX to return Willmore and Williams for political reasons.
Neither NASA nor SPACEX did not respond immediately to comment requests on Tuesday evening.
Can they come back?
If Trump requested NASA to bring back astronauts now, the nine missions were able to return to Earth early. Currently, it is planned to splatter in the Pacific Ocean in early April. According to NASA and astronaut, Willmore and Williams are doing well in space. They have a lot of food and clothes, and there are many things to do. Personally, the information is the same thing in ARS. Wilmore and Williams did not expect to spend 10 months in space, but did not take a serious risk. In fact, working on these kinds of accidental nature is part of their job.
The current return date is promoted by the launch of a 10 missions on the SPACEX vehicle. The mission was flying a new dragon spacecraft, and SPACEX had previously sought a little more time to process and prepare the spacecraft for its debut. This has moved a goal to fly this mission from February to March 25. In order to satisfy this day, the sources showed that SPACEX may need to make the previously flyed dragon appropriate. Complete crew-10.