Trump and Musk cheated Science.... Are they liars? Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore Stuck....

 

Musk, who has become one of President Donald Trump’s top advisers, has claimed on social media that “SpaceX could have brought them back several months ago. I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused.”

In a recent briefing with reporters, however, Williams and Wilmore said they were unaware of any such offer. “What was offered, what was not offered, who it was offered to, how that process went — that’s information that we simply don’t have,” Wilmore said.

The flight would help bring an end to an extraordinary saga that began when a troubled Boeing spacecraft led NASA to decide to rely on Elon Musk’s SpaceX to get the astronauts home safely — a decision that has since blown up into a political controversy.

If all goes to plan, SpaceX would launch the replacement crew, known as Crew-10, to the space station at 7:48 p.m. Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew, NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, are scheduled to reach the space station at about 6 a.m. Thursday. Wilmore and Williams would work alongside the new crew for the next couple of days, then hand over operations, returning as early as Sunday, NASA said.