NASA astronauts pushed back last month in an interview about President Trump's claim that former President Biden and his administration had abandoned them on the International Space Station (ISS).
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore were asked if they felt abandoned on CNN on Thursday night.
“We are not abandoned. We don't feel stuck. We are not stuck. We understand why other people think about it. We are ready. Space. Speaking from the station, Wilmore told CNN host Anderson Cooper.
“That's your human spaceflight program. It prepares for any contingencies we can think of, and we prepare for them,” he added. “So, if you help us change rhetoric, let us help us change the story and turn it into 'preparation and commit'. That's what we like. ”
The pair set out into space in June last year with Boeing's Starliner program. The programme faced numerous delays throughout the process due to helium leaks and thruster failures. When the capsule tried to dock into the station, five of the thrusters malfunctioned.
Boeing said Starliner is safe to revive Wilmore and Williams, but NASA decided to return in February this year with SpaceX's crew Dragon Capsule in August last year.
Later last month, tech billionaire Elon Musk I wrote it Trump asks SpaceX, which owns masks, to retrieve the space station that “left behind” two astronauts.
“It's awful that the Biden administration left them there for so long,” Musk wrote.
Hours later, Trump made a similar claim about the true society, saying that he was “a brave astronaut who was effectively abandoned in space by the Biden administration.”
“They waited months at the @Space station,” Trump wrote on Jan. 28. Hopefully everything will be safe. Good luck, Elon!!!”
NASA I said Williams and Wilmore's return on Crew 10 is set for March 12th in December.
