Posted on 03/14/2025 5:05:54 PM PDT by Morgana
NASA's beleaguered mission to rescue two stranded astronauts has finally launched, setting the stage for a happy ending to the nine-month-long saga.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully took off Friday night from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on a mission to deliver four new astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
The new team is scheduled to arrive at the station on late on Saturday. Once there, astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will finally be able to return to Earth at some point on or shortly after March 19.
The pair have been stranded in orbit since June 5, with SpaceX owner Elon Musk and many others claiming Williams and Wilmore were left on the ISS for political reasons.
The duo were initially scheduled for an eight day mission.
Musk said he offered to bring the astronauts home eight months ago, but the Biden Administration shot it down because it would've made Donald Trump 'look good' in the presidential race against former vice president Kamala Harris.
The successful takeoff comes after the Crew-10 mission was scrubbed on the launch pad due to mechanical issues just minutes before launch on Wednesday.
Crew-10 includes NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan's Takuya Onishi, and Russia's Kirill Peskov.
'Spaceflight is tough, but humans are tougher,' McClain said minutes into the flight.
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HOORAY Elon!
Biden intentionally stranded the astronauts because he hates Elon. What a piece of filth. He cares about no one, and Americans least of all.
I heard about that. I hope after they recover they have extremely good jobs working for Elon in the future, for the rest of their lives if they want.
Yeah they know what Biden did to them.
Dems didn’t want SpaceX to do this during the campaign because it would’ve meant even more political capital for Trump to work with but as it turned out, he didn’t need it.
Godspeed
Amen and amen....
A hearty chorus of “FJB!” s definitely in order when they get home.
“Biden appointed federal district judge of Honolulu orders Space X to keep rockets grounded.”
I hope Elon is compensated so the democrats can scream and yell that Trump is paying him off.
He cares about no one.......
Come on now. Biden cares about.. Joe Biden...
This is not the only time Biden showed his contempt for Elon. He has snubbed him before, specifically by completely ignoring Tesla at a national electric vehicle summit. Tesla is only the largest manufacturer by far of electric vehicles.
I pray all goes well. You know there are people on the left hoping this mission ends in disaster.
Crew 10 (just launched) ISS docking Sunday 2030pacific
Crew 9 (”stranded”) undocking Wed 3/19 0500pacific
Can’t find the Crew 9 splashdown time. I suppose it is flexible depending on conditions.
Maybe Trump can buy 10 more Teslas. 😄
“...What a piece of filth. He cares about no one, and Americans least of all...”
No surprises there. He’s been a vile, vindictive basstid his whole life.
Showering/molesting his own daughter, pedophilism, pushing income tax on seniors’ SS, his whole VP andPOTUS regime years are chock full of his vindictiveness toward the American People. Just look at what he put in cabinet positions...we were the laughing stock of th whole world.
Whatever should befall this evil POS is more than well-deserved.
Sure the left is hoping for failure
Well four went up today, are just the two “stranded” Astronauts coming back?
Wouldn’t have surprised me
Black robed tyrants who love to talk about separation of powers
Doge them all
Typical Nazi behavior./s
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