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1 posted on 04/04/2025 8:25:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Didn't Earn It.

DEI needs to DIE before more people DIE because of DEI!!!!!

2 posted on 04/04/2025 8:28:52 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought astronauts had an age cut-off? 62 years old.


3 posted on 04/04/2025 8:29:50 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: BenLurkin

So NASA deliberately put the ISS in danger, rather than doing the correct thing.

Got it.


4 posted on 04/04/2025 8:30:10 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: BenLurkin

This is way worse than what I had heard.

People need to be fired and maybe even prosecuted.


5 posted on 04/04/2025 8:31:44 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: BenLurkin

Any bets on what the QUALITY of the Boeing F-47 will be?


6 posted on 04/04/2025 8:32:45 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s them. Those DEAD EYES.


7 posted on 04/04/2025 8:32:54 AM PDT by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: BenLurkin

Thank God America had Elon Musk and Space X to bail our butts out.


8 posted on 04/04/2025 8:33:20 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (First covid case confirmed in America. 01/19/2021. Biden inaugurated 01/20/2021. Coinkydink?)
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To: BenLurkin

A couple of thoughts, I imagine the butt cheeks on the astronauts and a lot of NASA engineers were clinched so tightly you couldn’t slide a quarter between them.

Seriously, how much pressure do you think the Biden Administration put on NASA to go ahead with the launch despite all the warnings because they didn’t want any positive press being directed to Elon Musk and SpaceX.

We know from the Astronauts themselves and Elon Musk, the Biden Administration denied offers of help from SpaceX to rescue the Astronauts because the rescue would have happened before the election and potentially help Trump.


9 posted on 04/04/2025 8:34:36 AM PDT by srmanuel
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To: BenLurkin

That realization had to be profoundly devastating.
A feeling very few human beings have ever experienced.
Lesser men would have frozen up , paralyzed and overwhelmed by the most likely outcome laid out before them.
There shows another advantage of sending these Astronauts up in teams. Somebody like him, a highly trained professional , does not want to be the weak link, the one who falls apart and lets his team down.


10 posted on 04/04/2025 8:35:20 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: BenLurkin

All they did was take the Apollo drawings and update them.
They could not even get that right...


14 posted on 04/04/2025 8:40:07 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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To: BenLurkin

Is Mrs. Williams a muslim, by any chance? Asking for a friend.


18 posted on 04/04/2025 8:44:42 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: BenLurkin
"The remote override restored two of the failed thrusters, giving the ship just enough control to safely dock at the space station....

"Wilmore, on the other hand, knew that their problems had only just begun and would likely need another way home."
And from that moment on, Boeing and the Enemedia began gaslighting the American taxpayers about what had happened, was happening, and was going to happen to the two astronauts.
19 posted on 04/04/2025 8:45:24 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again!)
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3 hour tour!


20 posted on 04/04/2025 8:45:49 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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Space shuttle Columbia.

Technical people said “no”.
Managers said “yes”.

We got lucky this time - didn’t lose anybody.


22 posted on 04/04/2025 8:49:49 AM PDT by dagunk (-- Unknown)
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(prior to takeoff)

They KNEW before launch

It was reported here - I was saying DON’T LAUNCH - it was so obviously dangerous


25 posted on 04/04/2025 8:59:21 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

Wow, that was a lot closer call than we ever knew. We almost lost that crew.

NASA/Boeing vs. SpaceX! But ALL must HATE Elon Musk!


27 posted on 04/04/2025 9:03:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (PDJT doesn’t just walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. He swaggers.)
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To: BenLurkin

NASA needs to be severely DOGEd ...


29 posted on 04/04/2025 9:11:08 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: BenLurkin; lightman

Whew!

Dr. Buzz Aldrin (”Dr. Rendezvous”
@TheRealBuzz
Congratulations to @SpaceX for bringing back
@NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams following their unexpected, extended mission aboard the @Space_Station! These astronauts’ steady poise and professionalism over the last several months are to be commended. We’re glad to have you home! #AProudSalute


42 posted on 04/04/2025 10:07:13 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: BenLurkin
It is an unforgiving venture to shoot people into space. No mission has been perfect some were downright scary.

Gus Grissom's capsule blew a hatch and sank. Glenn's heat shield may have been loose. Gordon Cooper had to manually control his Mercury capsule after a guidance failure on re-entry (his landing was more accurate that the auto system could offer).

Neil Armstrong's Gemini capsule maneuvered uncontrollably when they tried docking to an Agena stage (stuck thruster) until he fixed it. Ed White's space suit swelled so much on our first space walk attempt, they didn't think he could re-enter his Gemini capsule.

Apollo 13 had a major blowout. We lost two space shuttle crews in flight.

Yet, we still go back. That is the spirit that makes America great. We didn't quit, we overcame.

44 posted on 04/04/2025 10:19:11 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: BenLurkin

Yikes!


47 posted on 04/04/2025 10:56:08 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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