{"id":21476,"date":"2025-01-29T20:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/elon-just-sent-his-most-bizarre-tweet-ever-and-its-about-starliners-crew\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T20:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:34:44","slug":"elon-just-sent-his-most-bizarre-tweet-ever-and-its-about-starliners-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/elon-just-sent-his-most-bizarre-tweet-ever-and-its-about-starliners-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon just sent his most bizarre tweet ever\u2026 and its about Starliner\u2019s crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"30777\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2022\/05\/23\/boeing-oft-2-starliner-docks-with-space-station-a-successful-but-rocky-venture\/boeing-starliner-iss\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"4096,2731\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Boeing-Starliner-ISS\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: NASA<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/05\/Boeing-Starliner-ISS.jpeg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: NASA\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might have thought our discussion of Starliner\u2018s crew was over, at least until the crew returned home on SpaceX\u2019s Crew-9 Dragon. However, it seems like President Trump and Elon Musk are looking to make Boeing\u2019s issue a political matter by calling for their return \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d Even though they are safe and have had no issues staying up on the station for an extended mission.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-42633\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday, Elon Musk shared on X, \u201cThe [President] has asked SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the [ISS] as soon as possible. We will do so,\u201d then adding his own comments: \u201cTerrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, a fact check: Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the crew that piloted Boeing\u2019s Starliner Crewed Flight Test, are not currently and have never been \u201cstranded\u201d on the International Space Station. Since their docking with the station back in June of last year, the crew has always had the option of returning home on a spacecraft that wasn\u2019t Starliner. It\u2019s also important to note that the Boeing spacecraft that carried them up to space returned successfully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That isn\u2019t to say Boeing\u2018s failed flight test was not a disaster for NASA or the company. NASA\u2019s goal with the Commercial Crew Program was to have dissimilar redundancy for crewed access to space. However, Boeing has failed to live up to its end of the bargain. All we know for now is that Starliner will not take flight again until 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-42633',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, Butch and Suni have been on an extended mission as members of the Expedition 72 crew. They have been reassigned to SpaceX Crew-9 for their return, which arrived at the station last September with two open seats. As astronauts, the two crew members have expressed nothing but excitement and joy at staying in space longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two are expected to return from space no earlier than March of this year. This will be after SpaceX launches its Crew-10 mission as a regularly scheduled crew rotation. That mission was delayed a month due to SpaceX\u2019s need to finish up its brand-new Crew Dragon spacecraft that it will use for that mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So why is Elon bringing up an issue he didn\u2019t seem to have any problems with when it meant SpaceX would be the hero? Between June 5, the launch of Starliner, and today, Elon has never expressed that Starliner\u2019s crew needed to return home sooner than the next Crew Dragon flight, nor criticizing Biden for their delayed return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon continued posting about Starliner, stating \u201cthere is no logical purpose to Starliner.\u201d and \u201camazingly, no Starliner fines for Boeing!\u201d, continuing to complain about SpaceX\u2019s fines by the FAA last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will likely be the first of many party politics that will be forced into decisions about NASA\u2019s current mission. President Trump will likely use the previous administration\u2019s \u201cshortcomings\u201d to warrant changes to his own Artemis Program and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, there is little evidence that former President Biden played any large role in decision-making at NASA. In fact, President Biden\u2019s unwillingness to change anything NASA was up to was likely the best thing a President has done for the agency in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}