Why couldn’t the Democrats do this 9 months ago? Liberals are incompetent and hate anything American. If it was Ukrainian Astronauts, they would have been brought home already.
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 SS Apartheid.
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
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 …..