The explosion of the SpaceX rocket on Thursday evening led to the fear that the stranded astronauts of NASA can be stuck in space for longer, or worse.
SpaceX has been responsible for finally bringing Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore at home from the International Space Station (ISS) Later this month.
But the failed launch of the company has led many to wonder whether SpaceX can bring the astronauts back safely or even in 19 March as promised.
The wave of concern has swept social media, although spaceship is a completely different spacecraft than the person who will bring Williams and Wilmore home this month.
'Elon Musk's SpaceX with a different explosion of Starship! FAA must stop flights. This is the man who wants to take home the stranded astronauts … “One X user has posted.
Another user placed: “Let this Starship mission are not an omen for the SpaceX mission to save the astronauts that are stranded in the ISS.”
While a user encouraged Musk to stop earlier [he] Does anyone hurt. '
Experts, however, told DailyMail.com that the explosion of Starship is no reason to believe that crew-9 Dragon Capsule, which will wear the stranded astronauts, will fail.
But Mike Pravica, a physics professor at the University of Nevada, expressed his concern that private space companies' cancel much more than they can chew when it comes to something as complex and technical as space travel. “
SpaceX's Starship Rocket exploded on Thursday evening during his eighth flight test. Although this rocket will not be used to bring the Starliner astronauts back to Earth, the incident has led to many people wondering whether SpaceX technology is in the task
The rocket was launched at 5.30 pm local time of the 'Starbase' in Boca Chica, Texas
“While Elon Musk and Donald Trump seem to be scientific research in America, as well as higher education in science and technology, I am very concerned about the future of space travel in the US,” he said.
“Especially when it is led by business people instead of scientists and engineers.”
After last night's launch, Starship got 10 minutes out of hand in the mission and blew into millions of pieces, so that flight ducts and the air traffic chaos came to light when debris fell out of the air.
'Hope it doesn't happen with the two stranded astronauts, “another user shared in reference to a video that showed the disintegration of the Caribbean.
Other Americans called on President Donald Trump and Nasa to stop Musk and considered him a 'crazy'.
Musk admitted on X that the spaceship 'failed' during the flight test and said: “But we learned a good amount when building the new ship design and the flight.”
The rocket was launched at 5.30 pm local time of the 'Starbase' in Boca Chica, Texas.
The booster 'stuck the landing' while it returned to the earth, gambles straight back in the 'chopsticks' as intended.
Thursday's explosion was the second consecutive failure for Starship this year, which marked a major setback for Musk's Rocket program
SpaceX has the task of bringing Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore home later this month from the ISS. By the time they return, they spent at least nine months in space
But only 10 minutes after a trip that is expected to take about an hour, the rocket started to get out of hand as four of the six engines cut out.
Hi [POTUS]! You've seen that [Elon Musk’s Starship] Rocket blew up – again! Please do not give our astronauts your favors. [NASA] Stop this crazy, 'an X user who has failed shortly after the mission has failed.
But Bryan Schmidt, assistant professor of mechanical and space technology on the Western Reserve University Case, said Dailymail.com: 'I do not believe that there is a reason to correlate the failure of the spaceship with a reduced probability in the success of the mission to bring back our astronauts from the ISS. '
Schmidt explained that the safety and possibilities of the Dragon Capsule have been repeatedly proven, which is the best kind of guarantee that you can get in space travel. '
“Going to space is an inherently dangerous activity and there will always be a risk, but the use of a proven system and platform is the best way to reduce the risk.”
Williams and Wilmore launched on 5 June 2024 at the ISS for a stay of eight days.
But problems teased their launch capsule, Boeing's Starliner, before and after it was moored on the Baan Laborlab. After months of deliberation, NASA called the capsule back to the earth without the crew.
Musk recently said he offered them to bring them home six months ago, but the Biden administration refused because it would have been good during the Presidential Race of 2024.
At the end of January, President Trump said he told Musk to “get Williams and Wilmore”, who were virtually abandoned by the Biden administration.
Williams and Wilmore were launched on 5 June 2024 for a stay of eight days
At that time, SpaceX already had the task of bringing the Starliner crew home.
But only two weeks after Trump's statement, NASA made adjustments to leave Williams, Wilmore and the crew 9 astronauts from the ISS two weeks earlier than planned.
Although Thursday's explosion is not a good look for SpaceX, there is no real evidence that the crew-9 Dragon Capsule will suggest.
Both Trump and Musk have expressed confidence in SpaceX's ability to safely reduce the Starliner astronauts to the earth.
During a recent performance on the podcast of Joe Rogan, the Joe Rogan experience, Musk said that only a SpaceX spacecraft can bring the astronauts back to earth.
“There is no one else who can,” he told Rogan. “The SpaceX Dragon -Ruimtaartuig is the only one that is considered safe enough to bring them back.”
The Dragon Capsules from SpaceX have successfully worn nine astronaut crews to and from the ISS.
When Crew-8 returned from the ISS in October last year, one astronaut was admitted to the hospital at night due to an unknown medical problem, but it is unclear whether this problem was related to the return flight.
Apart from this incident, no astronauts have so far been damaged during the Dragon ISS missions crew.
