NASA has a new plan for the salvation of astronauts-veterans, stuck at the International Space Station since June 2024. According to insiders, the space agency will return the 59-year-old Sunita Williams and the 62-year-old Barry "
The last plan for about two weeks is ahead of the preliminary date of the return of astronauts to Earth - early April. Perhaps the personal request of the US President Donald Trump to Ilon Mask to accelerate the process of flight Williams and Wilmore home led to a hurry, Dailymail writes home.
Recall that Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams landed on the ISS on June 6, 2024 and had to stay there for several days. However, due to the malfunction, the Boeing Starliner spacecraft could not deliver them to the ground in time and they got stuck in space.
Williams and Wilmore returned home was scheduled for February 2025.
But subsequently NASA stated that the mission was completed in the spring, but each time the dates were moved.
However, after on January 28, Elon Musk wrote on the network X that Donald Trump "
The billionaire emphasized that his space company SpaceX will do this, adding: “It is terrible that the Biden administration left them there for so long”.
At the same time, sources in NASA reported that the accelerated plan for returning home the veterans in case of emergency was launched even before Trump took office.