🚨BREAKING: President Trump has called on Elon Musk to launch a SpaceX mission to save stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams from space.

Benny Johnson on Twitter X | January 28, 2025 | Benny Johnson

[Macho MAGA Man]

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

🚨BREAKING: President Trump has called on Elon Musk to launch a SpaceX mission to save stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams from space.

Elon Musk has given the green light to the rescue operation.

8:19 PM · Jan 28, 2025

[RWGinger]

THAT is just AMAZING.
Thanks for posting

[ViLaLuz]

Amazing.

[Revel]

That’s good to know.

[fuzzylogic]

Thank goodness for our media staying on top of this one!!! We’d all been worrying about them 24/7!!!!

...oh wait. They’d ALMOST BEEN FORGOTTEN!

Getting Musk to save them....it’s almost part of a script, except you can’t write this level of incompetence from the D’s.

[Macho MAGA Man]

(We already tried to send OJ Simpson to Mars and look how that turned out. In the end only Mr. Barbara Streisand survived the ordeal (it toughened him up to the point where he survives living with Babs every day)

Lol..... what? Babs wasn’t in Capricorn One!

[Macho MAGA Man]

Oh, never mind, I thought you put Mrs. instead of Mr.

[Billthedrill]

I’m done with the “three hour tour” jokes. Get these people home. Just do it.

[Big Red Badger]

No More Commercial Aircraft!
The Last Trip
2003 I Flew with Friends to The Indy 500
Mainly to use Frequent Flyer Miles gotten from Ten years on a Race Team.
.
It Was Fun But I’m Done!

[Oscar in Batangas]

Look Ma, no parachute!

[healy61]

I think this has been intentional so scientists can examine the effect of prolonged time in space. They just won’t go get them. NASA has its fingers on the scale.

[BlackbirdSST]

Elon and SpaceX were always going to go get the astronauts after Boeing flubbed the mission.

Boeing and NASA should have to pick up the tab.

[brooklin]

That was the Starship, not space x usual.

[PIF]

Coming back next crew rotation. There is a huge mismatch between Boing Boing’s suits and Dragon capsule which hast be overcome - Dragon suits are individually tailored so that’s another problem

[RFEngineer]

“Where’s their leaking Boeing capsule now, still docked to ISS?”

They managed to get it back to earth safely under remote control. It’s now in the flex-seal laboratory for extensive leak repairs

[Freedumb]

I’m sure James Brolin goes through life being referred to as Mr. Streisand.

[Macho MAGA Man]

I wouldn’t doubt it.

[sergeantdave]

Add a ticker tape parade on 5th Avenue with fireworks. It’ll drive NY rats crazy.

[Fledermaus]

I thought he was going to do it already.

[Damifino]

Didn’t the last spaceX ship blow up?

Not the last SpaceX flight. Starship, a new rocket system that is a huge leap in improvements over existing platforms is being tested. On Jan 17, on its 7th test flight the second stage failed. The first stage did return to Earth successfully.

Since Jan 16:
Jan 21 - Starlink Group 13-1 Mission - Success
Jan 21 - Starlink Group 11-8 Mission - Success
Jan 27 - Starlink Group 12-7 Mission - Success
Jan 29 - SpainSat NG I Mission - Success

Scheduled Launches:
Jan 31 - Starlink Group 11-4 Mission
TBD - Hakuto-R M2 “Resilience” Mission
Feb 03 - Starlink Group 12-3 Mission

The launches (except classified missions) are broadcast on SpaceX.com. I recommend checking one out. SpaceX has hi res cameras on board. They post real-time video along with the engine's status and telemetry. It's exciting to watch, especially when the booster returns to land vertical on a floating barge at sea.