Billionaire business tycoon Elon Musk has suggested that the International Space Station should be scrapped earlier than late.
“It's time to start preparing to unlock @Space_Station,” he posted Thursday. “It served its purpose. There are few progressive utilities. Let's go to Mars.”
NASA announced last year that Musk's SpaceX was tapped to create a de-trajectory vehicle.
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Elon Musk will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference held at Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“As government agencies move to destinations with commercially owned spaces close to their homes, they will prepare for safe and responsible exemptions on the International Space Station in a managed manner after 2030 operational life is over. It's important,” the agency said. “NASA announces that SpaceX has been selected to develop and distribute US Deorbit vehicles that provide the ability to exclude space stations and ensure risk avoidance to densely populated areas. did.”
In a post Thursday, Musk proposed to bring the space station into orbit faster.
“The decision is up to the president, but my recommendations will be made as soon as possible. I would recommend it two years from now,” he pointed out.
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Leroy Chiao, a retired NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander, said on Friday, “Fox & Friends” that the space station is a “great research laboratory” and where to test the systems needed to send humans to Mars He said that.
“I absolutely agree that Mars is the next big goal,” Chiao said. “That's a great goal… it takes humans to Mars, but the space station is part of it.”
Musk is a former Danish International Space Station commander on Thursday after Morgensen rejected Musk's claim that two astronauts on the space station were “remained there for political reasons” by the Biden administration Blasted Andreas Morgensen.
“What a lie. And from people complaining about the lack of integrity from the mainstream media,” Morgensen wrote.
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“SpaceX could have brought them back a few months ago. I offered this directly to the Biden administration, and they refused.
