SpaceX CEO Elon Musk promised Tuesday to bring the two astronauts who stay at home in the room 'as quickly as possible.'
The spacecraft company was instructed in August to bring Butch Wilmore, 62, and Sunita Williams, 59, back to Earth in February after NASA officials of Boeing's Starliner were not in the task.
But in a post on X, Musk claimed that he was commissioned by President Donald Trump to immediately bring the stranded astronauts home.
He then hit former President Joe Biden because he did not act before.
“Terrible that the Biden administration left them there for so long,” he complained.
Commentator Ian Miles Cheong then replied that the Biden administration “you hated more than they wanted to save those astronauts,” of which Musk said it was “true.”
Wilmore and Williams landed for the first time at the International Space Station on 5 June and have since left stranded there.
The couple's visit originally only had to last eight days, but because of the safety problems, NASA decided to send the Boeing Starliner -Space vessel that they entered in the earth without anyone.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been on the international space station since 5 June. They are depicted with a news conference in July
Elon Musk claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump asked SpaceX to bring the astronauts home as quickly as possible
Earlier this month, Wilmore and Williams were heard who eventually told Nasa Bigwigs, we want to go home. '
Williams also told students at the Massachusetts High School that she graduated that she is now trying to remember what it is like to walk, “reports CBS News.
“I have been here long enough, I have tried to remember what it is like to walk,” she recently told students at Needham High School. “I didn't walk. I didn't sit down. I am not recorded.
“You don't have to, you can just close your eyes and float where you are here.”
The astronaut also told the students that the delay in coming home 'was a bit of a shock.
“We knew it would probably be a month or so, to be honest,” she said about her and Wilmore's journey.
“But the extensive stay was a bit different.”
The couple was doomed by a cascade of worse Thrust -Mislukings and helium leaks in the Boeing Capsule, who disrupted their journey to the space station.
They ended up in a holding pattern when engineers performed tests and debated about what to do about the trip back.
Musk struck for former President Joe Biden because he did not act before
Commentator Ian Miles Cheong then replied that the Biden administration 'You hated more than they wanted to save those astronauts', of which Musk said it was 'true'
In the end, NASA decided that it was too risky to bring Williams and Wilmore back to the earth on the Boeing capsule – and said that instead they would return to a SpaceX spacecraft in February.
Nevertheless, the replacements of Williams and Wilmore will only arrive at the international space station at the end of March or early April – which means that the stranded astronauts must remain until that time to carry out a transfer.
“This has not been an easy decision, but it is definitely the right one,” said Jim Free, the associated manager of NASA, at the time.
The decision to use SpaceX to pick up the astronauts was a blow to Boeing, which contributed to the safety problems that the company teases on the plane side.
Boeing had counted on Starliner's first crew trip to breathe new life into the troubled program after years of delays and balloon costs.
The company had insisted that Starliner was safe on the basis of all recent Thrust tests, both in space and on the ground.
Williams and Wilmore initially also said that they had faith in the implementation of the Thrust that was implemented. They had no complaints, they added, and enjoyed looking inside the Space station work.
Williams and Wilmore were doomed by a cascade of worse Thrust -Mislukings and helium leaks in the Boeing Capsule, which decorated their journey to the space station
Williams told a group of students this month that she 'tries to remember what it is like to walk'
Yet the misery of Starliner started long before Williams and Wilmore took it to the space station.
Poor software contaminated the first test flight without a crew in 2019, which gave rise to a do-over in 2022.
Subsequently, parachute and other problems arose, including a helium leak in the jug of the capsule that made a launch attempt in May. The leak was eventually considered insulated and small enough not to worry. But more leaks sprout after the launch, and five bow screws also failed.
After one after one after his small bow screws, started again during the flight. But engineers remain perplexed why some thruster seals seem to be swelling, so that the running lines are blocked and then return to their normal size.
These 28 bow screws are vital.
In addition to the Rendezvous Space Station, they keep the capsule in the right direction aimed at the end of the flight, while larger engines send the vessel outside the track. Coming in Crooked can lead to catastrophe.
Yet NASA does not give up with Boeing, where manager Bill Nelson says that he is '100%' certain that Starliner will fly again.
