Spacex: The ‘CREW-10’ takes off: Why does Musk say that he will rescue trapped astronauts and they deny it? | Science

The CREW-10 mission has taken off to the International Space Station (ISS) in the early hours of this Saturday at 0:05 Spanish peninsular time, from the Kennedy Space Center (Florida, USA). It was going to be a routine mission, but the incident of the Starliner ship last summer changed everything.

Two NASA astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, had to stay for a long stay at the station, when they were only going to spend a week. And the crew that is now traveling on the way to the ISS will relieve them, so that they can finally return to the Earth. Time the dragon capsule destined to take the four new astronauts to the station. Delays like this are common in the space race. Elon Musk’s space company has been forced to change ship, so as not to delay the replacement in the crew of the station, permanently inhabited since 2020. And that inconvenience would have gone unnoticed, if it were not because Musk himself announced at the end of January that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, had commissioned to rescue “as soon as possible to the two astronauts trapped in the space station. According to him, the Biden administration had left them abandoned at the space station. More information and Musk’s response to that assumption commission was the CREW-10 mission. The richest man in the world, and Trump’s trust advisor, ignored that NASA had already commissioned that mission in August 2024 and that his company had not fulfilled the deadline. The alternative version of the facts presented by Trump and Musk has caused stupor in the space community: both the affected and NASA astronauts themselves have denied that version, in statements measured to avoid the confrontation with the two leaders of the United States. Is the CREW-10 a rescue mission? No, the astronauts will not return in the ship that has just taken off. The CREW-10 is a routine mission to the space station, of which approximately six months take place every six months: a crew of four astronauts arrives in a Dragon ship in Spacex to replace another. After a few days together, the relieved crew leaves in another ship of the same model, in which half a year before it had reached the ISS. In this case, in the CREW-9 capsule they only made the first trip two astronauts: the American Nick Hague and the Russian Alexander Gorbunov. On the ship there were two empty seats, so that Williams and Wilmore could occupy them on the return flight. If any mission can be considered rescue is that, the CREW-9, which reached the station in September 2024. Are there astronauts trapped in the ISS? Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived in June 2024 at the International Space Station-but in another type of ship: a Starliner, Boeing-to spend there only a few days. They have been there for more than 9 months. Everyone knows them as astronauts “trapped in space”, since the Starliner had helium leaks during its first leg; And his return flight was postponed, again and again, until he was canceled. But they have always had a ship at their disposal to return. Throughout the summer, NASA insisted that they could have returned in the Boeing ship if necessary; But after two months of investigation, the cause of the failures in the propulsion system was not clarified, the space agency decided that the ship returned alone to the earth. He did it without problems. And since the end of last September, they have a list to return their own Spacex capsule, in which Hague and Gorbunov arrived. Musk and Trump ignore those facts and go further: in a recent joint interview in the Fox chain, they insisted on the idea that they had been abandoned by Biden, who according to them had no plan to bring them back from space. Did it offer to bring them before and Biden rejected and postpone his return? NASA has had Musk from the first moment to bring them back. And decided that they would return in February in a Spacex ship. Together with his followers on his social network X, Musk has spread without any tests the following statement: “They are still there for political reasons. I offered to rescue them immediately and refused because they hate me. ”The American space agency denies that it was a political decision imposed from above. Two NASA executives, Ken Bowersox and Steve Stich, have explained in a recent press appearance that the decisions were made – with Spacex’s help to shuffle options – based on technical and budgetary criteria of the departments of the space agency involved: that is why it was immediately ruled out bringing them immediately, in a specific mission for it, due to their very high cost. The solution was to integrate them into the usual rotation of crew of the international space complex. Therefore, Williams and Wilmore have to wait for the normal stay of their classmates Hague and Gorbunov. Together, the four form the crew of the CREW-9. And once that way is adopted, by logistics the idea of ​​an anticipated return of the CREW-9 astronauts was also dismissed, before those of the CREW-10 relieve them: that would leave for weeks or months a single crewman of the NASA on board, who could hardly comply with all the maintenance and research tasks assigned to the agency Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams and Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore during a press conference from the International Space Station. TV How do astronauts say? They have had the normal activity of an astronaut in the ISS. Suni Williams is the current commander of the station, where he had been twice before. In recent months, Williams has broken several records. She is the woman who accumulates more hours of space walks and, in addition, this week she has exceeded 600 days outside the earth: no American man has been more time than her in space; Only one woman, astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has spent 675 days in orbit. On February, during a live interview from the ISS in CBS News, the ISS commander denied Trump’s and Musk statements: “I don’t think his words are precise. We do not feel abandoned, senses that we are part of a team and that is a great honor, ”said Williams, for whom to think they are trapped is not to understand the role of an astronaut. “We have food and clothes. We can go back home if something really bad would happen to the ISS, ”he added. In a later press appearance, Wilmore denied that they were still at the station for political reasons, and said that he had no information that Musk would have offered to bring them back to ground in 2024 and that Biden had refused. But he didn’t want to deny Musk directly: “I believe him. Surely what he says are made. ”Another Astronaut, Danish Andy Mogensen – who was also commander of the station – accused Musk of lying, and he replied by calling him“ total delay ”and“ idiot ”. A few hours after, the billionaire offered to Trump to exorbit “as soon as possible” the space station, to which he no longer sees meaning. Again, Musk ignored that – in June 2024, Biden being president – NASA had already hired him to do so, when the ISS concludes his operations in 2030. Did Trump achieved and Musk advance the return of the “trapped astronauts”? When deciding that they did not return to their original ship, the Boeing Starliner, its return was located for last February. If everything goes well, they will do it a month after that period that NASA agreed in summer of 2024 with Musk. However, another way of seeing it is that Williams and Wilmore will return home a month before what was planned when Trump assumed power. On December, NASA had given Spacex until a couple of months of extension, until April. The company wanted to use a completely new dragon ship for the CREW-10, but technical problems arose and could not have it in February, as it was initially planned. Finally, nor was Spacex to finish the new capsule for April, NASA imposed a ship change to the Musk company so that the return of Williams and Wilmore was not delayed anymore: its replacement crew has just taken off in a dragon that is recycled, and had already flown before the ISS.With that change, Musk can now mission. What has not explained is why before that it caused its delay. Why did you want to use a new ship for the CREW-10, when it became a delicate mission? And when in December the problems were known, why didn’t he choose to change it for a space capsule already tested? (Tagstotranslate) Space X (T) NASA (T) Elon Musk (T) International Space Station (T) Space Saves (T) Astronauts (T) Space Agencies (T) Donald Trump (T) United States

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