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For the reasons Was not immediately clean, SpaceX Founding Elon musk Tuesday evening was taken to his social media site X to create a misleading space-based accent.
“ @Potus @SSCECEX has asked 2 Novo John to come home as soon as possible to @space_station. We will do so, ” Wrote the muskThe “That is terrible Biden The administration has left them there for so long. “
Now, usually in ARS Technique, it is not our principle to write stories based on Elon Kasturi X, however, this statement was so announced, and so much concentration was intended. NasalIt carries some explanation.
First, Elon is the most commendable explanation for this. “He is trolling,” said one of my best space policy sources immediately after the tweet. After all, the tweet was sent to the zone at 5 pm in the central time, where SpaceX is now headquartered.
Even if it is trolling, it will still cause headaches in NASA.
First of all, NASA has gone in a lot of pressure that two astronauts mentioned here –Buch Wilmore and Sunny Williams– not stuck at International space stationThe There is some controversy about whether this pair had any time last summer, Who flew to the Space Station in the Boeing Starliner car in early JuneWas briefly trapped. Was stuck by that mission Technical problemIncluding the problem of the starliner’s propulsion system. (In the end, the starliner Fly home without its crew.), However, had a safe ride home in Wilmore and Williams since the arrival of SpaceX’s Crew -9 missions with two empty seats in late September. The dragon vehicle is currently dock at the space station.
Then the musk with one of the highest microphones in the world, shouted that NASA’s innovators were trapped and President Trump wanted to save them. It is a founder of SpaceX, who has become a close adviser to Trump, is a bomb to be exposed in public.
It is also possible that the musk was not trolling and Trump asked SpaceX to return to Wilmore and Williams first for political reasons – namely, in their view, the Bieden administration was ashamed.
NASA or SpaceX on Tuesday evening did not respond to the request to comment.
Can they come back?
If Trump claims that NASA is now bring back the innovators, the Crew -9 mission may return to Earth before. It is currently expected to spread to the Pacific in early April. According to NASA, and according to astronauts, Wilmore and Williams are doing great in space. They have plenty of food and clothing and lots of work. Personally, the sources have told ARS the same. Although Wilmore and Williams were not expected to spend 10 months in space, they were not taking any serious risk in doing so. In fact, it is part of their work to deal with these types of situations.
The current return date is also being driven in a spacex car by launching the Cru -10 mission. This mission is flying in a new dragon spacecraft, and the spacecraft wants to process and prepare the spacecraft to introduce the debut before SpaceX. It has removed the mission from February to 25th March. To meet this date, the formulas have indicated that SpaceX is a different, previously flying dragon -deficient Axim -4 mission, the dragon used for the dragon used by the dragon -to -10.
