Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been caught in house after their initially scheduled eight-day mission ended up with a malfunction within the Boeing Starliner throughout takeoff, forcing the spacecraft to return with out the pair. NASA claimed their return was too dangerous.
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“I’ve requested Elon. I mentioned, do me a favor. Are you able to get them out? He mentioned, sure he’s getting ready to go up I feel in two weeks,” Trump instructed reporters within the Oval Workplace Thursday afternoon.
The NASA astronauts will get a journey on SpaceX after their replacements arrive subsequent week on the Worldwide House Station.
The president had a sort message for Wilmore and Williams and famous the latter’s “wild” hair.
“We love you and we’re coming as much as get you,” Trump mentioned earlier than attacking his predecessor, former President Joe Biden. “And also you shouldn’t have been up there so lengthy.”
Trump cracked a joke about hoping the 2 astronauts get alongside after 9 months in house collectively earlier than reflecting on the seriousness of the issues.
“I hope they like one another,” Trump mentioned, prompting laughter from the room. “And I see the girl with the wild hair, good, stable set of hair she’s received. There’s no kidding, there’s no video games along with her hair.”
“There’s a hazard up there too. They’ll have some failures up there. That may be very dangerous,” Trump continued. You gotta get them out.”
Williams and Wilmore are anticipated to return to Earth later this month, based on NASA.
