Careful breakdown of Trump’s desperate attempt to take a loan to return the Starliner crew

Starliner saga finally ends with Return to NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore On Tuesday, after a long nine months, stay in space. The story is largely over, but that did not prevent President Donald Trump from taking a final breakthrough in the former administration – a piercing full of misinformation, exaggeration and outspoken lies.

Trump took on his social media platform Truth Social on Monday to get a loan for a Starliner astronaut astronaut plan at home. NASA, Wilmore and Williams’s duo, Starts to the International Space Station aboard Boeing CST-100 Starliner On June 5, 2024, the mission was to last eight days, but NASA declared Starliner dangerous after anxiety technical problemsS Thehe A spacecraft returned home emptyWith Wilmore and Williams, they appointed a pair of space on the Spacex Dragon spacecraft, which finally retired from the ISS on Tuesday, March 18, at 1:05 pm et.

Trump undoubtedly claims to have facilitated a Rescue mission To bring the astronauts home, accusing the Biden administration of “abandoning them.” President’s last diatrib in social media on the return of Crew-9, Posted in Truth Social on Mondayis a dorous filled with meaningless statements and bright inaccuracies. We went through Trump’s publication, checking the various statements of the President and provided experience and context to reveal the true story. The President opens:

I just talked to the current NASA administrator, Janet Petro. It coordinates our team of many respected scientists, space engineers and various other “geniuses” who have agreed to let our astronauts go home long before the two -week period, originally approved by NASA.

As the newly appointed NASA, we seriously doubt that Janet Petro has a lot to do with this routine SpaceX mission. If nothing else is an obedient commodity, hard work Dismantling the space agency Inside at the request of her president. Trump pretends to respect the “scientists, space engineers and various other” geniuses “of the Space Agency, even when Petro obeys its executive orders – blocking many offices, dismissing the staff and probably preparing for even more cuts. With Petro as an acting administrator, NASA has Stopped the work of a number of astrophysics and planetary science committees and removed references to key conditions including References to women in leadershipfrom his websites.

Again, as a routine mission of SpaceX, NASA’s participation is minimal and it is not clear which “geniuses” in the space agency are supposed to play a role in the return. And in this note, the placement of “geniuses” in quotes clearly feels like some backhand burn.

The fact that Trump also “just talks” to Petro and that she agreed to “let our astronauts go home” is another sick joke. This plan has been in work since August last year. On September 28, 2024, NASA launched its mission on the crew-9 with two astronauts instead of the usual four (the two are NASA astronaut Nick Hag and Cosmonau Roscosmos Alexander Gorbunov). The two blanks were reserved for Williams and Wilmore, which became active and contributing members of the Crew-9 and performing space paths that led to a new record for Williams.

Trump added that his so -called rescue mission brought astronauts to home “long before the two -week period, originally approved by NASA.” Astronauts really return home two weeks earlier than planned – at Trump’s insistence – but what does it mean? Long before?

Nevertheless, Trump may refer to technical problems with SpaceX Crew Dragon, which delayed the start of the mission of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10. This meant that Crew-9, along with Williams and Wilmore, could not leave the ISS while the Crew-10 arrived at the train station sometime in April. NASA eventually switched the dragon vehicle assigned to Crew-10, Launching mission On March 12 and the return of the crew mission-9 on March 17 after a short period of transmission. Technically, this saves the crew an additional period of two weeks or more aboard the ISS, but for astronauts who have been in space for more than nine months, an additional two weeks would not make a big difference. Trump added:

Janet was great. She said, “Let’s bring them home now, sir!” “I thanked her too.”

Again, this sense of urgent call to return two astronauts to Earth is a pure fabrication. The Starliner crew never needed a rescue mission – a Crew Dragon spacecraft – the one that started in September – was parked outside the ISS all this time! The crew could leave the station at any time since September. However, this would be incredibly wasteful, as other Crew-9 astronauts should join them for the return. Six months stay aboard the ISS are standard.

Instead, Williams and Wilmore, as a bona fide and fully trained NASA astronauts, were more than ready to take on the responsibilities of the two astronauts who were unable to make the trip. This makes sense for so many reasons – not the least, which are the huge costs of launching the ISS astronauts. It is also worth noting that at no moment Wilmore or Williams have said they were “abandoned” or difficult to make by the situation. However, Trump seemingly wants to experience his fantasy on the movie on the day. More from Trump:

This started when I asked Elon Musk to get up and take the abandoned astronauts because the Biden administration was unable to do so. They forgot about the astronauts because they thought it was a very uncomfortable event for them – another thing I inherited from this unsuccessful group of incompetent.

The plan for bringing the Starliner crew at home certainly did not start with the fact that Trump calls on his friend Musk, CEO and owner of SpaceX to extract abandoned astronauts. In February Musk claims he had suggested to the Biden Plan administration To return the two Starliner astronauts earlier, without waiting for the CREW-9 mission to return from the ISS. Musk has not provided evidence to support this claim.

This Starliner mission was the first Boeing program crew to transport astronauts to and from the ISS. This is a private test flight funded by NASA, with the space agency relying on a trading partner for its space flight efforts. Still, we have Trump to throw away on the former administration, not Boeing, for this epic, disturbing failure. Ever since the President’s publication:

Elon and I went to the project, sending Spacex Dragon, who successfully tosses and, hopefully, as long as there is always a danger associated with such a mission, they will soon be on the way home – they will get out tomorrow and land on Wednesday. The exact times will be provided to you. Safety always comes first and maximum standards are respected.

This “project” that Trump talks about is certainly not his or muscular, since the plan has been around for months. And as noted, his only contribution was to accelerate home return for about two weeks. In fact, it is Trump’s political theater and an opportunity to throw an unjustified shadow on the former administration.

Trump also tried to strengthen the drama of his so -called rescue mission, emphasizing the “danger”, although these types of crew missions to the ISS have long been routine. Yes, there is always a risk when it comes to space flight, but there is nothing unique about this mission. Also, landing on Tuesday. Trump closed his post by saying:

But after eight long months for a mission that was supposed to be eight days, it’s time. I look forward to seeing Butch and Suni and thank you again to NASA and Janet Petro!

Trump is and will continue to be, claiming that he has saved Starliner astronauts, but the duet is unlikely to be played in the President’s loan to politicize the missionS “The words they said, well, this is a policy.” From my point of view, politics has not played in this at all. “

You have it there – penetration from the mouth of the astronaut. But this will not prevent Trump from taking advantage of Boeing Starliner’s problematic program as another way to take pictures of his predecessor.