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Elon Musk's Space X Might Need to Rescue an American Astronaut Stranded by Russia
Red State ^ | Mar 12, 2022 4:45 PM ET | By Duke

Posted on 03/13/2022 9:05:29 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Mr. Elon Musk, it looks like America and one of her astronauts aboard the International Space Station might need you. You know, the place where your space capsules have gone to a number of times, and have allowed the United States to not depend on the Russians for a lift up and back home.

Thankfully, the private sector, led by Elon Musk and his company Space X in conjunction with NASA, recently allowed the United States to forgo depending in Russia for rides, and now can send manned rockets from the United States’ soil again.

In all honesty, I have no idea if Dmitry Rogozin is being serious about leaving any American on the station while defending his boss Putin’s boneheaded decision to invade Ukraine. That he would even joke about such a thing, when tensions are at an all-time high over this illegal action, shows that, once again, the Russians do public relations about as well as Kamala Harris taking a European tour reassures our allies.

Badly.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: astronaut; chechens; chechnya; cosmonaut; dmitryrogozin; elonmusk; iss; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; spacex; starlink; tesla; ukraine; zottherussiantrolls
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I am a great believer in free trade

Your religion is a false one. My guess too much Limbaugh over the years.

21 posted on 03/13/2022 9:34:11 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Hojczyk

Musk and SpaceX could do it if necessary.


22 posted on 03/13/2022 9:38:45 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: Hojczyk
Why can't they honor agreements? Would we strand a Russian Cosmonaut on the ISS? I'd like to think we would not.

23 posted on 03/13/2022 9:45:05 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Hojczyk
That he would even joke about such a thing, when tensions are at an all-time high over this illegal action, shows that, once again, the Russians do public relations about as well as Kamala Harris taking a European tour

And why not?
The Dementia Joe regime is trying to destroy Russia and Russians, why can't the Russians hit back?

24 posted on 03/13/2022 9:52:46 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: throwthebumsout

My Thoughts,
or hang a
“For Rent”
sign up.


25 posted on 03/13/2022 9:54:02 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (On the Other hand, )
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To: HighSierra5

As things approach idiocracy levels of stupidity here on Earth one is tempted to save for a ticket to Mars aboard one of Elon’s rockets :-/


26 posted on 03/13/2022 9:58:33 AM PDT by Bobalu (The Deep State is the new Soviet Union)
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To: Hojczyk

They should do it, even if they don’t have to. To drive the point home to Russia that it’s space-faring days are behind it.


27 posted on 03/13/2022 10:03:51 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot
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To: BobL

Biden/Harris will go down as the most inept, incompetent, and clueless administration in US History.


28 posted on 03/13/2022 10:11:56 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; ...

Well put.


29 posted on 03/13/2022 10:17:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: lump in the melting pot

As is their aeronautical industry. 60% of Russias airlines are leaded from Ireland and are being recalled with leases cancelled. To a insult further, Boeing and other commercial airline producers in on the sanctions will no longer provide spare parts. Aeroflot is now constrained to 3rd world venders and cannibalism of planes on the ground. I can see their new marketing branding, “Fly us, we might get you there”.

I believe international flights are primarily China, India, Pakistan, Africa, and South/Central America. All gardens spots.


30 posted on 03/13/2022 10:19:16 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: Hojczyk

Rescue our astronaut blow up the station and say it was a Chinese killer satellite.


31 posted on 03/13/2022 10:27:51 AM PDT by The Louiswu (The times they are a changin. )
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To: Hojczyk

Elon! Get paid in advance!


32 posted on 03/13/2022 10:46:39 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Hojczyk

Just more bluster from Russia. This won’t happen. Not only would the cosmonauts NOT abandon their fellow explorer (very elite club), the entire World would turn their back on Russia if it occurred.


33 posted on 03/13/2022 10:54:03 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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To: BobL

Incredible isn’t it? That people will trust where there is an obvious conflict of interest? I marvel and wonder how they can be so naive or downright stupid?

I worked with a guy like this once. Otherwise pretty smart but I guess it was high minded ideals that crippled him to believe it is possible for people to ignore their own interests and advantages while negotiating or acting. I have never figured it out. He told me that he assumes all people are honest until proven otherwise and that I do the opposite. He has a life of regrets and disappointments while I have had a life of good surprises.


34 posted on 03/13/2022 10:55:03 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Big Red Badger

My thoughts?

It is an expensive toy and it is time to put it away.


35 posted on 03/13/2022 10:57:55 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: A Navy Vet

That bluster is a strange immature mind set that I don’t understand. Most mature and rational people don’t resort to things on par with an 8 year-old school yard bully.


36 posted on 03/13/2022 11:00:09 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: central_va

On free trade, I take Adam Smith’s view. Scotland could produce wine domestically at great expense in greenhouses, but it was far cheaper to import wine from France. Scotland could produce grain more cheaply because of its abundance of rain, through the miracle of free trade, exchange grain with countries who did not have Scotland’s advantages. This way there were more grain and more wine for everyone. The central government in France did not control the production or price of wine, but if they tried to take advantage, Scotland could purchase wine from Spain or Italy, or simply forgo the consumption of wine.

So free trade works in principle. Where cartels gain control of vital (vital, wine is not precisely vital) industries or supplies of raw materials, to manipulate prices or exert political pressure (like to allow them to invade neighboring countries) the principle breaks down.


37 posted on 03/13/2022 11:08:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I am not talking about food. Food is ghetto. Manufactuing is the key to being a first world country.


38 posted on 03/13/2022 11:09:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Hojczyk

Didn’t Elon boost his red Mustang into the stratosphere a few years ago and it is currently circulating the earth. The astronaut can hop a ride in Elon’s sweet wheels and return in style.


39 posted on 03/13/2022 11:13:59 AM PDT by chuckee ( )
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To: stinkerpot65

Reason #57 on why to admire Elon.


40 posted on 03/13/2022 11:17:19 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Who is Ray Epps? Who killed Matt Perna?)
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