By Yoshita Singh
New York/Washington, US President Donald Trump had some phrases of appreciation for NASA’s Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams’ hair as he informed a pair of stranded astronauts aboard the Worldwide Area Station that “we’re coming as much as get you.”
Trump, 78, mused Thursday about the opportunity of personally launching a rescue group into orbit to assist deliver astronauts Butch Wilmore and Williams again to Earth — and blasted former President Joe Biden for his or her eight-day mission stretching to 9 months and counting.
“Biden left them up there,” Trump informed reporters within the Oval Workplace.
“We have now two astronauts which are caught in house. I’ve requested Elon , I stated, ‘Do me a favour. Are you able to get them out?’ He stated, ‘Sure.’ He’s making ready to go up, I feel in two weeks.”
He added that Musk is “proper now making ready a ship to go up” and get them.
“And I see the girl with the wild hair, good, stable head of hair she’s obtained. There is not any kidding, there is no video games along with her hair,” Trump stated throughout remarks within the Oval Workplace Thursday whereas speaking about Williams.
Trump was responding to a query about Williams and Wilmore, who’ve been stranded on the Worldwide Area Station for the previous 9 months.
When requested what his message is for the 2 astronauts, Trump stated “We love you, and we’re coming as much as get you. And also you should not have been up there so lengthy.”
Describing Biden because the “most incompetent president in our historical past”, Trump stated he “allowed that to occur to you, however this president will not let it occur.
“We will get them out. We’re coming as much as get you,” Trump stated, lifting his head and searching up, as if sending the message to the astronauts.
“They have been left up there. I hope they like one another, however they have been… perhaps they’re going to love one another, I do not know, however they have been left up there. Consider it. There is a hazard up there too. It might have some failures up there. That may be very unhealthy. You bought to get them out,” Trump stated.
“So I’ve authorised Elon. Every week in the past, I stated, we’ve got two individuals up there that Biden and Kamala left up there, and he is aware of it very effectively. I stated, ‘Are you geared up to get them?’ He stated, ‘Yeah.’ He is obtained a starship, and so they’re making ready it proper now, and so Elon goes to go up and get them.
“Ought to I’m going on that journey simply to be on the ship,” Trump stated amid laughter from the reporters current within the Oval Workplace.
Musk stated in a publish on X that “the astronauts had been solely imagined to be up there for 8 days and now have been there for 8 months.
“SpaceX might have despatched up one other Dragon and introduced them residence 6 months in the past, however the Biden White Home refused to permit it. President Trump requested to deliver them again as quickly as attainable and we’re doing so,” he stated.
Williams, 59, and Wilmore went on what was meant to be an eight-day mission to the ISS aboard Boeing’s Starliner in June 2024. Nevertheless, technical points together with helium leaks and thruster malfunctions meant that the Starliner was unsafe for his or her return.
In January this yr, Williams broke the report for complete spacewalking time by a lady by logging 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalk when she and Wilmore had performed a spacewalk that month.
In 2012, throughout a visit to the ISS, Williams grew to become the primary particular person to complete a triathlon in house, throughout which she simulated swimming utilizing a weight-lifting machine and ran on a treadmill whereas strapped in by a harness so she wouldn’t float away.
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