US President Donald Trump sparked confusion in the space community by asking Elon Musk to bring home the astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), claiming they were 'virtually abandoned' by the Biden administration. However, the astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, are scheduled to return to Earth in March 2025 as part of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, a planned crew rotation. NASA has been coordinating with SpaceX for this return, and the situation is not a rescue mission.
An early morning post by US President Donald Trump caused some furrowed brows in the space community after he instructed Elon Musk to"go get" the crew of Boeing's Starliner, who are currently enjoying an unexpected stay aboard the International Space Station .:"I have just asked Elon Musk and @SpaceX to 'go get' the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration. They have been waiting for many months on @Space Station.
The duo's return, as part of Crew-9 aboard a Crew Dragon, is scheduled for March 2025. The date was pushed back from February due toin constructing a new SpaceX Crew Dragon. Making the Starliner duo part of Crew-9 means the return will, as far as NASA is concerned, be just another crew rotation for the ISS rather than a rescue mission.
The exchange between Trump and Musk came after Oracle announced it would use Starlink connectivity for its Enterprise Communications Platform . The plan is to use the satellite broadband network to bring Oracle's cloud to hard-to-reach places. It will be interesting to see whom Musk will blame for any unexpected outages.Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew
The Starliner capsule was deemed unsafe to transport the crew under nominal conditions following issues, including thruster problems. After a lengthy evaluation, NASA decided to return the capsule to Earth without a crew and integrate the Boeing duo into Crew-9.We emailed Musk's company with our queries:"SpaceX is already scheduled to return the astronauts as part of Crew 9.
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