{"id":21054,"date":"2025-01-29T02:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T03:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21054"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:24:17","slug":"elon-musk-suggests-spacex-will-accelerate-return-of-nasa-astronauts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21054","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Suggests SpaceX Will Accelerate Return of NASA Astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SpaceX is scheduled to bring home two astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June. Mr. Musk said President Trump had asked for that to occur \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In a post on X<\/a> on Tuesday evening, Elon Musk said President Trump had asked his rocket company SpaceX to bring home \u201cas soon as possible\u201d two NASA astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June.<\/p>\n

SpaceX, in fact, is already scheduled to bring those two astronauts home<\/a>, but no earlier than late March, along with two other astronauts who are currently on board. NASA has not responded to questions about whether it was indeed working to have those astronauts come home sooner, which could leave the space station understaffed.<\/p>\n

Hours later, Mr. Trump in his own post on the website Truth Social<\/a>, confirmed the request, stating that \u201cElon will soon be on his way,\u201d without setting a time frame for a return trip.<\/p>\n

The astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, docked at the space station in June<\/a>. Their trip was not supposed to last much longer than a week or two in orbit as part of a test flight of Boeing\u2019s Starliner spacecraft<\/a>. But because Starliner\u2019s propulsion system malfunctioned<\/a> during the trip there, NASA repeatedly extended the pair\u2019s stay as engineers tried to figure out what had gone wrong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In his posting, Mr. Musk added, \u201cTerrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his Truth Social post, Mr. Trump echoed that sentiment, claiming that Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore had been \u201cvirtually abandoned in space by the Biden administration.\u201d In fact, the space station has been resupplied four times<\/a> since the two arrived.<\/p>\n

Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator during the Biden administration, did not respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX is scheduled to bring home two astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June. Mr. Musk said President Trump had asked for that to occur \u201cas soon as possible.\u201dIn a post on X on Tuesday evening, Elon Musk said President Trump had asked his rocket company SpaceX to bring home \u201cas soon as possible\u201d two NASA astronauts who have been on the International Space Station since June.SpaceX, in fact, is already scheduled to bring those two astronauts home, but no earlier than late March, along with two other astronauts who are currently on board. NASA has not responded to questions about whether it was indeed working to have those astronauts come home sooner, which could leave the space station understaffed.Hours later, Mr. Trump in his own post on the website Truth Social, confirmed the request, stating that \u201cElon will soon be on his way,\u201d without setting a time frame for a return trip.The astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, docked at the space station in June. Their trip was not supposed to last much longer than a week or two in orbit as part of a test flight of Boeing\u2019s Starliner spacecraft. But because Starliner\u2019s propulsion system malfunctioned during the trip there, NASA repeatedly extended the pair\u2019s stay as engineers tried to figure out what had gone wrong.In his posting, Mr. Musk added, \u201cTerrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.\u201dIn his Truth Social post, Mr. Trump echoed that sentiment, claiming that Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore had been \u201cvirtually abandoned in space by the Biden administration.\u201d In fact, the space station has been resupplied four times since the two arrived.Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator during the Biden administration, did not respond to an email seeking comment.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21048,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21056,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21054\/revisions\/21056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}