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The SpaceX mission to rescue Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from space is underway
NBC BOSTON ^ | 03/15/25 | Matt Fortin

Posted on 03/15/2025 6:55:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

After being postponed, NASA's SpaceX crew10 had a successful launch Friday night.

Needham native Sunita Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore have spent nine months in space after originally being scheduled for an eight-day mission.

People in Needham are crossing their fingers that everything runs smoothly. Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore spent nine months in space after launching for what was scheduled as an eight-day mission.

Friday night's mission was a go as four astronauts onboard a SpaceX rocket that blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. They're expected to arrive at the International Space Station sometime Saturday. There will be a change of hands so Williams and Wilmore can finally hitch a ride home.

The pair has been at the ISS since June after riding up in the Boeing Starliner during a test flight. But a problem with the spacecraft forced them to remain there.

Four astronauts will make the trip back home. The two others have been at the ISS for about six months.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: astronauts; butchwilmore; elonmusk; iss; marooned; nasa; rescue; spaceoddity; spacex; starjunker; starstinker; stranded; suniwilliams
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To: Carry_Okie

Around 11:30 est tonight I heard.


21 posted on 03/15/2025 7:28:45 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: SeekAndFind; Carry_Okie; All

Watch Dragon and Crew-10 dock with the @Space_Stationhttps://t.co/VPdhVwQ7Yb https://t.co/cs8XqY7GOd— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 16, 2025


22 posted on 03/15/2025 7:31:31 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw the headline, and for one quick minute,
I thought they were saying Sunny Hostin of The View was stranded in Space. You can imagine my disappointment to realize my error. “I don’t care how she got there, but let her be for a good while!”


23 posted on 03/15/2025 7:33:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: linMcHlp

https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-spacex-crew-10-rendezvous-and-docking/?is-live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL1LuAqZjwQ


24 posted on 03/15/2025 7:35:44 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: SeekAndFind

WOW nbc is sure flogging this BS, this is a normal crew rotaion, buch and suni will come back on crew 9 next week.


25 posted on 03/15/2025 7:40:06 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yay!!


26 posted on 03/15/2025 7:44:28 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’d be talking to a lawyer as soon as I could remember which way is up.

My overtime rate is normally pretty steep.

Off-world is really gonna cost you.


27 posted on 03/15/2025 7:46:00 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too. 😁 " - Robert Conquest )
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To: waterhill
Working on scheduling a Nilgai hunt down near there this spring.

I host night time snipe hunts during the summer for tourists. It is quite entertaining.

28 posted on 03/15/2025 7:46:14 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Whoever said "out of sight, out of mind" never had a snake disappear in their bedroom.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Yes, you can see that they’ve lost muscle mass and Butch has a lot of facial edema. It happens during zero gravity. They’re not healthy…..
I pray all goes according to plan.


29 posted on 03/15/2025 7:47:46 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Enough with the nasa valley girl. Show the g d Dragon’s approach.


30 posted on 03/15/2025 7:48:38 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: Jane Long

The Dragon has the ISS in sight. Docking imminent. 10-15 minutes to coupling/ docking?


31 posted on 03/15/2025 7:53:44 PM PDT by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: RummyChick

Same.

Full blown “Silent Running” crazy.


32 posted on 03/15/2025 7:54:08 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: EvilCapitalist

PedoJoe plus the Autopen Department


33 posted on 03/15/2025 7:55:21 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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To: RummyChick

*and now I want to watch Silent Running for the umpteenth time

😑


34 posted on 03/15/2025 7:56:58 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: llevrok

LOL! Pour yourself a nice beverage.

Valley Girl has 200 hours of flight time in combat.

Worthy credentials.


35 posted on 03/15/2025 7:58:04 PM PDT by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: freepersup

The other chick played rugby. LOL! Hard bark.

Maybe they DO have the “right stuff?”

DRINK!


36 posted on 03/15/2025 7:59:55 PM PDT by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: linMcHlp

Live view of Dragon Endurance, from ISS:

https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/nasas-spacex-crew-10-rendezvous-and-docking/?is-live


37 posted on 03/15/2025 8:06:29 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: freepersup

And now you have my attention. Pics for us working folks?


38 posted on 03/15/2025 8:08:37 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: RandallFlagg

I wish I knew how to capture an image from off of a live video?

Anybody?

Live video...

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=crew-10


39 posted on 03/15/2025 8:12:32 PM PDT by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: BipolarBob

Oh a snipe hunt, have not done one of those sense I was a boy scout


40 posted on 03/15/2025 8:16:23 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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