For the reasons It was unclear immediately, the founder of Spacex, Elon Mask, went to his X social media site on Tuesday evening to make a space -based expression.
“Potus has asked Spacex to bring home two astronauts home as soon as possible,” he said.
Now, in general, in ARS Technica, it is not our policy to write stories based on what Elvan Maskan says in X. However, the statement was very declared, and therefore the NASA stimulant has little explanation.
First of all, the most acceptable explanation for this is that Elun is Elvan. Shortly after the tweet Mask, one of my best spatial policy sources said, “He is Troll.” After all, the tweet was sent at 4:20 pm in the central time zone, where Spacex now has its headquarters.
Even if it is Troll, it still causes NASA headaches.
Most importantly, NASA has been long to insist that the two astronauts mentioned here – Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams – have no discipline at the International Space Station. The discussion of whether there was a period last summer that the couple, who flew to a Boeing Starlin in early June, were briefly disciplined. The mission was entertained by technical issues, including the problems of the Starlin’s propulsion system. (Finally, Starlinn flew home without his crew.) However, a safe house has been mounted since the arrival of the Crew-9 Spacex mission with two empty seats in late September, Wilmor and Williams. The dragon vehicle is currently attached to the space station.
Mask, along with one of the world’s tallest microphones, shouts that NASA astronauts are a discipline and President Trump wants to save them. This is a bomb for Spacex founder that has become a close consultant for Trump.
It may also not be Troll, and Trump has asked Spacex to return Wilmor and Williams for political reasons – that is, to embarrass the Biden government.
Neither NASA nor Spacex immediately responded to the request of comment on Tuesday evening.
Can they come back?
If Trump calls for NASA to return astronauts, the Created 9 mission could return to Earth sooner. It is currently scheduled to splash in the Pacific Ocean in early April. According to NASA, and the astronauts themselves, Wilmor and Williams are doing well in space. They have a lot of food and clothing and have a lot to do. Privately, sources have said this to ARS. Although Wilmor and Williams did not expect to spend 10 months in space, they have no serious risks in doing so. In fact, this is part of their jobs to deal with this potential condition.
The current return date is redirected by the launch of a 10 -crew mission, also in a Spacex vehicle. The mission is flying a new dragon spacecraft, and Spacex had already sought a little more time to process and prepare the spacecraft for the first time. This goal for flying this mission moved from February to March 25. To meet this date, sources show that Spacex may require a different dragon and previously flying-probably the dragon intended for use by the Axiom-4-Full crew.
