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In a post of Social Media Platform X, SpaceX CEO’s Elon Musk claimed that the Biden administration had “stuck” on Tuesday, and President Donald Trump had asked Spacex to rescue. Ta.
However, NASA has already introduced such plans a few months ago when spacex requested astronaut SUNI WILLIAMS and Butch Wilmore as part of the Crew 9 mission to return from the International Space Station. Later, the mission team announced in December that the plan was delayed in December, as it would need more time to prepare a new SPACEX vehicle.
“@Potus asked @spacex to take two astronauts left in @space_station as soon as possible. I read the mask post.” The Biden administration left them for a long time. Is terrible.
In a social media platform post, President Trump repeatedly stated that he was “two brave astronauts abandoned by the Biden administration in space.”
“They have been waiting for months at the @space station,” read the post. “Eron will soon be in the middle of him. Hopefully everything will be safe. Do your best!”
When asked for a comment on the ambiguous declaration from the mask and the card, NASA replied, “I am working quickly to safely return the institution of SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts.” 。 ”
At the Trump administration’s request, it is not yet clear whether the institution will adjust the schedule that has been introduced for weeks. NASA did not respond to the follow -up question on Wednesday.
CNN also asked Spacex and White House for comments. Neither responded immediately.
The status of Williams and Willmore is unusual, but their return trips are relatively regular because two astronauts cannot take them to the Boeing Space Station. The rotation of the scheduled crew.
Williams and Willmore were launched by Florida in June 2024 and piloted the first crew mission of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which experienced a rocky trip to ISS. Astronauts were initially planned to spend about a week in the orbit laboratory.

After the Starliner arrived at the Space Station, NASA and Boeing worked for a few weeks to better understand the problems, including helium leakage and propulsion issues suffering from test missions.
NASA finally determined that it was too dangerous to return the starliner to the crew. In August last year, the agency announced that SPACEX CREW-9 capsules have called SPACEX to take Williams and Willmore to your house. The vehicle is currently docked on the Space Station, which is the official member of the ISS staff while waiting for Williams and Willmore to return home.
NASA had previously stated that crew-9 capsules would return to Japan immediately in February. However, the agency updates the timeline in December, and SPACEX requires a lot of time to complete the capsule used for the Crew-10 mission, following the priority of NASA. He said he needed to be released before leaving. At that time, the agency said that the crew targeted the return earlier than in late March.
In a statement on Wednesday, NASA showed that the crew-9 spacecraft did not return home with Williams and Willmore before the crew arrived at ISS. Such movements leave only NASA’s Don Petit (NASA’s Don Petite), who flew to a station on a Russian Soyuze vehicle in order to manage the entire USS -controlled section.
When Crew 9 returns to the house “immediately”, the statement of the space organization says, “We are preparing to launch a crew-10 to complete the delivery between expeditions.”
In a statement to CNN, he led an agency under the former NASA administrator Bill Nelson -Biden, and said: A regular rotation after the crew 10 arrived. Delivery from a crew to another crew is important for maintaining ISS and keeping all astronauts safely. ”
While acknowledging that their mission was difficult, Williams and Willmore appeared in an interview on January 8th from the Space Station.
“We have a lot of clothes. We are eaten well,” said Wilmore.
Williams added:
“I finally want to go home,” she added. “Because I left my family a while ago.
Williams will complete the spacecraft last week, and both Williams and Willmore will leave the ISS for another spaceship on Thursday.
The mission team has decided to start a long process to evaluate the problem of the Starliner’s spacecraft, and finally decided to take Williams and Willmore back to SpaceX capsules.
NASA’s commercial crew program manager Stebstitch said at a press conference last year that if Williams and Willmore were in an emergency, or when 9 SPACEX crews arrived, the options to return home with a star liner to return to the earth. I pointed out that it was there. On the ship.
“In my opinion, they won’t be stuck or left behind,” Stitch said. “They always had a way to leave the space station, and for me there is a place where they can’t leave when someone is stuck.”
In an interview with CNN last week, the former NASA chief, Nelson, talked deeply about the decision to extend the space staying of astronauts, and emphasized that the decision was made at the top of astronaut safety. I did.
In NASA’s leadership, this decision was announced in August that it would fly Williams and Willmore’s house at SPACEX Crew Dragon instead of Starship.
“Pam (Meroy, Deputy Administrator), and Bob Cavanas, the third place of NASA, were all flying in space -we three,” said Nelson. “So, all three of us were very influenced by the experience of Colombia and the challenger, as a result, we thoroughly asserted as much safety as possible. Message.”
Nelson added: “Finally, Boeing had a difference in opinion. Boeing thought it was safe to return to the starliner, but NASA unanimously said that he should not return to Starliner. did.”
As a result, the agency chose to take an astronaut at SPACEX crew 9 home.
What is next to butch and Suni?
The SPACEX Crew 9 Missions also include NASA astronaut Nick Hagg and Russian astronaut ALEKSANDR Gorbunov, arriving at the POST base in front of the track in September. Williams and Willmore are currently at more than 7 months at the station, and when they return home in late March or early April, they will be aggregated in space for about nine months.
Regular missions for the International Space Station last for six months. However, it is not unusual for astronauts to acquire unexpected extensions in orbit.
For example, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio keeps the US record in the longest and continuous stay at the Space Station. He spent 371 days on the mission that ended in 2023.