Posted on 03/17/2025 9:11:24 PM PDT by Libloather
President Donald Trump provided an update on the stranded NASA astronauts set to make their way back to Earth in a social media post on Monday.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said that he recently conferred with Janet Petro, the acting administrator of NASA, who is coordinating the return of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
"She is coordinating our Team of highly respected Scientists, Space Engineers, and various other ‘geniuses,’ who has agreed to let our Astronauts come home long prior to the two week period originally approved by NASA," Trump wrote.
"Janet was great. She said, ‘Let’s bring them home NOW, Sir!’ — And I thanked her."
The president also took a swipe at his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, and accused him of "forgetting" about Wilmore and Williams. Trump also spoke about Elon Musk and Space X's involvement in the return mission.
"This began when I asked Elon Musk to go up and get the abandoned Astronauts, because the Biden Administration was incapable of doing so," Trump claimed. "They shamefully forgot about the Astronauts, because they considered it to be a very embarrassing event for them – Another thing I inherited from that failed group of incompetents."
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I’m curious if the engineers (or astronauts) practiced with Kerbal Space Program.
(I had read somewhere that NASA actually used that simulation before)
Thanks for posting another link.
And there goes Dragon!!
Lol.. it looks like there is a rearview mirror in the middle of the cockpit.
bookmark
I bet the smell isn’t too fresh in there...
-PJ
Probably not a lot of tailgaters up there. I remember the array of wide-view rearview mirrors in the F-4 cockpits.
Roku has the NASA channel? I just recently dumped Comcast and got Roku, and haven’t found everything they have to offer.
-PJ
I’ll dig around to find it. Good to know it’s there!
I appreciate clear, plain speaking leaders.
Never. Kelly is all politician now. No more astronaut stuff.
The nose burns out in minutes. Everything is A-OKAY after that.
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