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Spacex It will return two NASA astronauts back from the International Space Station this month after a damaged spacecraft extended its eight -day trip to a nine -month committee. SPACEX Executive Director Elon Musk said he believes the two astronauts remained in space for political reasons and he can save them earlier. Astronauts say they believe in Musk and are left in the dark for what really happened.
The most rich man in the world Elon Musk will help to return two astronauts from NASA back to Earth after the Boeing spacecraft has undergone technical problems, leaving the two aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months; He claims that this could be done early.
On June 5, 2024, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams embarked on the ISS of Boeing Starliner. NASA’s longtime astronauts had to stay for eight days, but the spacecraft has undergone numerous technical problems on the way to space.
NASA believes that Starliner is too risky to carry the astronauts back to the ground and send the spacecraft to the home without its crew in September, leaving the two without riding at home.
Now NASA astronauts will return on March 19 or 20, but they will make their return to Earth with SpaceX, aboard its Crew-9 flight.
Last year, Musk suggested that the two astronauts get home earlier than planned, but he claims to have been rejected by the Biden administration.
“They were left there for political reasons, which is not good,” Musk said in an interview with President Donald Trump with Fox News Host Sean Haniti.
In a separate interview last week with Joe Rogan, Musk said the Biden administration deliberately “pushed the date of return after the date of taking office” in an attempt to downplay Trump’s successes and his allies.
“There is no way to make someone support Trump look good,” Musk told Rogan.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Williams and Wilmore were asked to confirm the authenticity of Musk’s statements about Biden’s administration. Wilmore said “is absolutely actual” while still choosing his words carefully so as not to choose sides.
“We have obviously heard some of these different things that have been said,” Wilmore said. – I can tell you at the beginning, we all have a great respect for Mr. Musk and apparent respect and admiration for our United States President Donald Trump. The words they said, politics, I want to say it’s part of life. We understand this. And there is an important reason why we have the political system and the political system we have and we are 100%behind it. “
Wilmore added that he and Williams were left in the dark, without “no information” about what actually descended behind closed doors.
“This is information we just don’t have, so I believe him,” Wilmore said.
Although it is unclear whether NASA controls the information that Wilmore and Williams received during their extensions in space, the ISS has access to the Internet on board, according to NASA’s website, which means that there is an opportunity that they could hear Musk’s intentions to help get the two astronauts at home.
While NASA initially did not respond to FortuneThe request for comment, the Federal Space Agency has earlier denied any claims for political participation affecting the time line of the return of astronauts.
“I can tell you unequivocally from a personal point of view that politics did not play any role in this decision,” said the then NASA administrator Bill Nelson on August 24th. “This absolutely has nothing to do with it.”
While astronauts expect their journey back to Earth, morality is strong on board the ISS.
“We are actually doing pretty well. You know, we have food, we have clothes, we have great crew members here, “Williams told Cnn in February. “We do not feel abandoned. We do not feel stuck. We do not feel stuck. “SpaceX did not come back FortuneRequest for comment.
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