Trump tells Elon to go get stranded Astronauts

It's literally called the International Space Station. The crew are not exclusively from the U.S. But yes, let's politic this. I sincerely hope it doesn't backfire.

 

Finally, our $Billions in tax payer funded SpaceX cr@p doing something useful. Yeah....let's here for the SpaceX.

 

It was Boeing, not NASA. SMH

 

Still didn’t answer the question. Why didn’t Biden rescue this crew sooner?

 

Why didn't Trumph snap his fingers and bring 'em home on day one, just like when he ended the Ukraine war and fixed the price of eggs?

 

They would have probably died of old age up there if the Biden administration had won again. Good thing we have someone in office who puts America first instead of someone that doesn’t care about Americans

 

So they are not running out of Fruit Loops, Tang, and oxygen? Are you saying that there is no reason whatsoever for Right Wingnuts to self-asphyxiate in solidarity with the astronauts who are dying because of Biden's immigration policies? And that there is no truth to the rumor that space station is running out of oxygen and food because an extended family of Mexicans sneaked on board while chain-smoking cigarettes and feeding nachos to their cats and dogs, which are being eaten as we speak by a family from Haiti? How the hell did we let Haitians on board the Space Station?!!!

 

Because NASA decided for them to stay up there and do ISS work and return home on the next space x launch in spring 2025. This was decided by NASA PMs back in September. It's very expensive to send astronauts into orbit, so they took advantage of the situation since returning on Boeing starliner was deemed too risky.

Trump is just using it as political theater. The plan was hatched out before he took office.

 

Launching a rescue missions isn’t an overnight thing; Armageddon was a cheesy (and guilty pleasure of mine) movie; not reality.

 

I fully explained this in the other thread but these guys don’t care. They don’t understand the space program or what happened at the time, it’s all about trying to score cheap political points regardless of the truth.

Remeber, the people complaining loudest here also talk about government waste the most too. And yet they wanted us to pay SpaceX $65M to bring the astronauts down instead of scheduling them on already planned and paid for flights when the astronauts were willing to stay there and perform the missions.

It’s not hypocrisy for them but something much more sinister; any means to an end.

 

Because there was no offer to the Biden administration by SpaceX to bring the astronauts home? Oh wait …..

 

Interesting

NASA finally reveal return date for 'stranded' astronauts whose 8-day mission turned into 278 days


There have been questions about why NASA didn't simply send up another crew to swap out the marooned pair, but now, NASA associate administrator for space operations Ken Bowersox has explained why they've been left aboard the ISS for 280 days (and counting). As always, it comes down to money. According to the Daily Mail, NASA's 2024 budget only stretched to $30 billion, meaning there wasn't enough left in the pot to send another mission up to rescue the pair.

NASA ultimately decided the funds couldn't be stretched, with Bowersox explaining: "The SpaceX folks helped us folks helped us with a lot of options on how we would bring Sunny and Butch home on Dragon [a capsule] in a contingency.

"They've been so helpful this last year, coming up with those options. When it comes to adding on missions or or bringing uh a capsule home early, those were always options."

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The Daily Mail then goes on to highlight the apparent $20 million that NASA spent on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) grants and contracts during the 2024 budget period.

 

The funniest part about Armageddon that I always loved is that they deemed it somehow easier to train miners to become astronauts, and not just teach astronauts to be miners.

 

And all along I thought that there were numerous trips to and from the ISS using SpaceX during the Biden Administration. In fact here's a list.
List of all SpaceX crewed flights to space

 

Yes, they always have a return capsule available.

 

Antiquated space shuttles flying hundreds of thousands of miles into space and landing on a comet. Otherwise it was a fun movie.

 

Made it.

SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrives at International Space Station to relieve Starliner astronauts | Space



Crew-10's Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance, caught up with the station early Sunday morning (March 16), docking with its Harmony module at 12:04 a.m. EDT (0404 GMT), while the two spacecraft were flying 260 miles (418 kilometers) above the Atlantic Ocean.

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The Crew-10 astronauts will relieve four folks who have been living on the ISS for a while now — NASA's Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos' Aleksandr Gorbunov.

Hague and Gorbunov arrived at the station in late September, on SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. Williams and Wilmore have been in orbit since early June, when they launched on the first crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

Starliner's mission was supposed to last just 10 days or so, but the capsule suffered thruster problems and was eventually brought home uncrewed in early September. NASA retasked Williams and Wilmore to a long-term ISS mission and took two astronauts off the Crew-9 launch to accommodate them on the way home.