Posted on 03/18/2025 2:13:38 AM PDT by Morgana
I have never understood this story. Was NASA too incompetent to save them?
It’s been reported Biden refused assistance from Elon’s SpaceX because of Elon’s support of Trump and his purchasing X to make it much more free speech friendly.
I give up.
What’s “brutal” about nine months on the ISS?
There are millions who would sell their souls for a chance to live in space for that long.
Scott Kelly, Mark’s brother, did 340 days straight, only bettered by Mark Vande Hai at 341 days. That’s 11 months and some change.
As risks go in the space flight biz getting stuck on humanity’s most impressive habitable structure is rather low on the scale.
There were a total of 7 astronauts aboard the ISS, before Dragon Endurance arrived with 4 replacement astronauts.
And there are now 7 astronauts aboard the ISS.
The two “stranded astronauts” were not alone.
I don’t think NASA does any actual flights anymore. Private firms like Space-x do all the lifting. Or we hitch rides with the Russians.
I've got a question - they were supposed to be there for four day? How did they get eight months worth of food? Just wondering...
UberEats.
Cargo resupply flights still continued from both SpaceX and Roscosmos.
Boeing was supposed to be a second vendor for the reusable manned capsule but their design failed, leaving our 2 erstwhile astronauts updating their calendars.
CC
I don’t think NASA flies anymore. It’s all outsourced.
Ah. I figure if they weren’t claustrophobic when they went up there, they are now.
That Pizza Hut Delivery is fantastic
Plus the frozen doctors in the medical compartment - Okay, who remembers Mad Magazine and “201 Minutes of Space Idiocy”
I’ll have to search for the artificial food, artificial air and artificial artificial flowers.....
He was delicious to the end!
Preoccupied with it's task of muslim outreach.
They’re not rescued yet, they have to get home. Let’s hope the mission succeeds without incident. However, I would bet there’re a lot of negative waves out there hoping Trump/Musk fail.
9 months...I wonder if Butch ever got lost in the Suni Triangle.
It's not exactly like going to the corner store.
Please pray and let everything else rest for now.
Be Wise!!
The Boeing spacecraft that took them there is unsafe. It can’t be used
?? Where did you get that info??
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