Elon from the top rope. I bet the astronauts stranded on the space station have been Red Pilled by now.

Hard to believe Xiden left them there so long. Or his handlers I mean.

Watched it live saying a prayer, several actually. Still praying for a routine flight and return.

aggiehawg said:

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Watched it live saying a prayer, several actually. Still praying for a routine flight and return.

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Amen!

Heck yeah!

Beautiful launch. Daughter's friend and Zoomie classmate is on board (Ayers)

What's the timeline?

So much wrong. There weren't stranded there. The mission to bring them home launched in Sept. The mission that launched today isn't being them home. They'll come home in about a week.

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So much wrong. There weren't stranded there. The mission to bring them home launched in Sept. The mission that launched today isn't being them home. They'll come home in about a week.

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Exactly. They could have left any time they wanted. All they had to do was get on their space ship…………oh wait.

what verbiage would you pick? transitory delayed?

Stranded: left without the means to move from somewhere

For a few weeks they had the option of riding home Starliner with some calculated risk because of helium leaks.
For a few days they had the option of Crew-8 Dragon with some risk of using diy seats.
They've had the option of coming home on Crew 9 Dragon since Sept.
None of those meet the definition of stranded.

An Astronaut would depart from the ISS for two reasons: an emergency or when their mission was complete.
Emergencies include: ISS emergency, Dragon emergency, or crew health emergency.
Mission managers on the ground decide when a mission is complete and departure is appropriate based on a ton of factors including ISS status, Visiting Vehicle traffic, Dragon status, Crew readinesss, landing weather, lighting conditions, Comm coverage, etc.
Once the decision was made that Starliner was unsafe to return home in Butch and Suni's mission was changed to be a part of Crew 9 and depart on that Dragon in about a week.

Libs are praying too.

I didn't know it was happening and watched it live from the Hard Rock Hotel in Daytona Beach.

Pretty awesome. I'll post some video later, if I can figure out the optimum way to do that.

So they weren't really stranded? Their mission just wasn't complete? I feel like you're trying to confuse everyone.

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Elon from the top rope. I bet the astronauts stranded on the space station have been Red Pilled by now.

Hard to believe Xiden left them there so long. Or his handlers I mean.

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Scott Adams firmly believes it!

Do you think the ISS Astronauts are Democrats or Republicans when they come back?@ScottAdamsSays “Let me tell you my rule - by if I ever get stranded in an International Space Station, and the party that I belong to decides they don't want to come get me, and the other party… pic.twitter.com/a4NW1DnxHH

— jay plemons (@jayplemons) March 13, 2025

aggiehawg said:

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Watched it live saying a prayer, several actually. Still praying for a routine flight and return.

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You know, whether it was really Biden who made the decision to not allow Musk to get the astronauts, that is one of the most selfish, deadly, pathetic, and possibly satanic actions I've probably seen from any politician (which is saying something).


It's essentially saying "yep, I'm sure these astronauts are really good folks, but I have extreme hatred in my heart because I don't like someone, and this will make him look good". So if they die, they die.

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So they weren't really stranded? Their mission just wasn't complete? I feel like you're trying to confuse everyone.

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Not stranded because they always had an Emergency vehicle to home. Once the decision was made to not fly home on Starliner their mission parameters changed to join Crew 9. Butch and Suni being experienced Astronauts, flying a test vehicle, and Navy veterans are more than capable of handling a change to their mission.
Let's quote Butch.
"That's been the narrative from day one: stranded, abandoned, stuck - and I get it, we both get it," Wilmore told CNN's Anderson Cooper in February. "Help us change the narrative, let's change it to: prepared and committed despite what you've been hearing. That's what we prefer."

Please get them home so we can stop seeing this lady's hair

Yeah their mission was "changed" alright. Changed until SpaceX was allowed to go get them.

There honestly weren't very many great options:
Fly home on a leaky Starliner with some risk to Crew health and the probable end to Boeing program if it went bad
Risk a landing on Crew-8 with DIY seats and no suits.
Fly up a quick Dragon with 0 or two crew to bring them home soon. This would change ISS crew rotation and probably make the normal ISS crew of 7 down to 3. This quick option would also mess with the Dragon readinesss for Crew 9, Crew 10, and Axiom 3 launches.

They choose the option they chose: keep all the planned rotations and launches, change their designation from Starliner to Crew 9, and fly up Crew 9 with 2 crew, but come home with 4

Quad Dog said:

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So much wrong. There weren't stranded there. The mission to bring them home launched in Sept. The mission that launched today isn't being them home. They'll come home in about a week.

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Perfect, brought out that NPR spin machine.

They weren't stranded, guys. It was just deemed way too dangerous to have them come home lol. Until, of course, there was then no way to get home for the last 6 months. But not stranded at all.

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RogerFurlong said:

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So they weren't really stranded? Their mission just wasn't complete? I feel like you're trying to confuse everyone.

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Not stranded because they always had an Emergency vehicle to home. Once the decision was made to not fly home on Starliner their mission parameters changed to join Crew 9. Butch and Suni being experienced Astronauts, flying a test vehicle, and Navy veterans are more than capable of handling a change to their mission.
Let's quote Butch.
"That's been the narrative from day one: stranded, abandoned, stuck - and I get it, we both get it," Wilmore told CNN's Anderson Cooper in February. "Help us change the narrative, let's change it to: prepared and committed despite what you've been hearing. That's what we prefer."

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So there is nothing special or advantageous or extraordinary about SpaceX bringing them back? Honest question.

I swear to God Elon or Trump could literally cure cancer and it would be spun as negative, I f***ing guarantee it.

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I swear to God Elon or Trump could literally cure cancer and it would be spun as negative, I f***ing guarantee it.

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There are some that would refuse treatment. Honestly.

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Quad Dog said:

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So much wrong. There weren't stranded there. The mission to bring them home launched in Sept. The mission that launched today isn't being them home. They'll come home in about a week.

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Exactly. They could have left any time they wanted. All they had to do was get on their space ship…………oh wait.

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Well... They were NEVER without a ride home.

When Starliner was there it was their primary ride. If there was an emergency they 100% would have left in Starliner.

After Starliner was sent home empty they still has a ride home, although less than optimal in the Crew8 Dragon (on a cargo pallet).

Now their just part of Crew 9.

They are not, and we're never stranded.

Launching on one vehicle and landing on another is very rare. Happened a few planned times with Soyuz/Shuttle and recently with the Soyuz that had a coolant leak. That is remarkable.
It's a remarkable demonstration of the flexibility of ISS, crew, NASA mission managers and flight controllers.
Remarkable dedication by Butch, Suni and their families.
Remarkable sacrifice by Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson who lost their seats on Crew 9.
Dragon and it's rocket Falcon could have flown out of schedule to bring them home sooner. A huge demonstration of Space X versatility.

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Beautiful launch. Daughter's friend and Zoomie classmate is on board (Ayers)

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Is she the one with long hair in braids?

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Prosperdick said:

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I swear to God Elon or Trump could literally cure cancer and it would be spun as negative, I f***ing guarantee it.

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There are some that would refuse treatment. Honestly.

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100%

Had Trump taken office in 2021, most libs would not have taken the vax imo.

If you really want to learn about Stranded cosmonauts go read about Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and famously Sergei Krikalyov.

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There honestly weren't very many great options:
Fly home on a leaky Starliner with some risk to Crew health and the probable end to Boeing program if it went bad
Risk a landing on Crew-8 with DIY seats and no suits.
Fly up a quick Dragon with 0 or two crew to bring them home soon. This would change ISS crew rotation and probably make the normal ISS crew of 7 down to 3. This quick option would also mess with the Dragon readinesss for Crew 9, Crew 10, and Axiom 3 launches.

They choose the option they chose: keep all the planned rotations and launches, change their designation from Starliner to Crew 9, and fly up Crew 9 with 2 crew, but come home with 4

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So you are telling us that they were left without a safe means to come back.
No that is not the definition of stranded.. Is it?

Someone should tell this conservative rag the AP that they weren't "stuck".

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-stuck-astronauts-butch-wilmore-suni-williams-4e379e121d4386d2baca1e3426f62e58#:~:text=CAPE%20CANAVERAL%2C%20Fla.,check%20out%20later%20this%20month.

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Quad Dog said:

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There honestly weren't very many great options:
Fly home on a leaky Starliner with some risk to Crew health and the probable end to Boeing program if it went bad
Risk a landing on Crew-8 with DIY seats and no suits.
Fly up a quick Dragon with 0 or two crew to bring them home soon. This would change ISS crew rotation and probably make the normal ISS crew of 7 down to 3. This quick option would also mess with the Dragon readinesss for Crew 9, Crew 10, and Axiom 3 launches.

They choose the option they chose: keep all the planned rotations and launches, change their designation from Starliner to Crew 9, and fly up Crew 9 with 2 crew, but come home with 4

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So you are telling us that they were left without a safe means to come back.
No that is not the definition of stranded.. Is it?

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No, you see, because Mission Control found them something to do while they "chose" to not board on vehicles that had risk of death.

Prosperdick said:

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I swear to God Elon or Trump could literally cure cancer and it would be spun as negative, I f***ing guarantee it.

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Yeah, the lies are just obnoxious.