Musk claims that he offered directly to senior officials of the Biden administration. We have no way to confirm this, but it is clear that the Biden administration has never offered the lower level officials within NASA, who made their decision for technical rather than political reasons.
“I think you know that we work for NASA, and we worked with NASA mutually, which we think is right,” Space X official, Grustin Mayor, replied. “You know, we were ready to support in any way, which they thought was the right way to support them. They came with the option you have described today by them, and we are supporting this option.”
Did Trump tell NASA to speed up Booch and Sunny’s return?
By the end of last year, the staff’s 9 mission was to return in mid -February. However, there was a battery problem with a new dragon spacecraft that was being used to blow up the staff to orbit. As a result, NASA announced On December 17, the staff return was delayed in late March or early April.
Then, on February 11, NASA announced that the 10 launch of the staff was being brought forward by March 12. It was two weeks before the plan, and it was possible because NASA and SpaceX decided to replace the dragon capsule using a pre -flying car – crew dragon. PatienceFor staff 10.
So was this change to speed up the politically driven return of Willor and Williams?
The decision to change Patience Stach said, was made at the end of January, and allowed the launch date to move forward. Asked if the political pressure is one of the reasons, Statch said it was not. “It was really driven by many other factors, and we were looking at him before making some of these statements through the President and Mr. Musk,” he said.
Booshox added that this was true but also said that NASA appreciated the president’s interest in the space program.
“I can confirm that Steve is talking about how we need to bounce flights and capsules before there is a debate outside NASA, but the president’s interest certainly added energy to the conversation,” said Borisox, but the president’s interest certainly added energy to the conversation. “