WASHINGTON — President Trump mentioned Tuesday that he expects to welcome rescued US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the Oval Workplace once they “get better” following their long-awaited return to Earth Tuesday.
Wilmore, 62, and Williams, 59, arrived again residence 278 days not on time aboard a SpaceX capsule after being stranded in house final June when defects have been discovered with a Boeing return craft.
“Number one, they have to get better,” Trump informed Fox Information anchor Laura Ingraham in an interview taped shortly earlier than the astronauts’ profitable splash-down within the Gulf of America Tuesday night.
“You know, when you’re up there and you have no pull in your muscle, you have no gravity, you can lift 1,000 pounds like this,” Trump mentioned.
“They have to get, they have to get better. It’s going to be a little bit tough for them. It’s not easy. They were up there a long time, and when they do, they’ll come to the Oval Office.”
The president and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have blamed former President Joe Biden for leaving the pair of astronauts in house for thus lengthy.
“They were left up there for political reasons, which is not good,” Musk mentioned final month.
“He was going to leave them in space. I think he was going to leave them in space … He didn’t want the publicity,” Trump claimed forward of the mission to convey them residence.
SpaceX in September launched a Crew Dragon capsule to rescue the pair, and it docked on the house station, however NASA opted to stall its return.
NASA mentioned in December the 2 astronauts must await one more SpaceX rescue car to reach with substitute scientists.
