"It was a SpaceX Dragon capsule that eventually brought them back to Earth, but it was a spacecraft that had been attached to the ISS for months, not one Trump said he directed Musk to 'go get the two brave astronauts'."
That Dragon was supposed to reboost the space station at 12:50 EST on 5th nov or so (what it did successfully) - so this was a testvehicle for exactly that purpose (alitude control of the ISS). There were even more spacecrafts to do this, so it wasnt the only one
They had no trouble with getting back. But returning on Crew-9 without Crew-10 there would leave Don Pettit up there alone to maintain the US/Japan/ESA segment and no science would get done for months
Nothing Trump and Musk enjoy more than projecting themselves as a heroes. NASA would have brought them down eventually, but "Leon" couldn't resist the opportunity to put on a big show for Trump's benefit.
NASA returns about 7:1 on investment. And you want to cut it?
It's <0.5% of the budget
Knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing is a terrible way to go through life
Musk is also one of the people who cut into NASA funds and given himself (SpaceX) big contracts. NASA isnt the bad guy here, they are victims of a horrible admin
There are 10,000 people who work at SpaceX who are not named Musk. What they do saves the US $60-350M/launch, enabling more science and easier access to space for a broader variety of people, including K-12 students on ride shares
Otherwise we'd pay ULA $120M and its not human-rated yet
The budget is taking a 50% cut and many scientists are losing their jobs, lots of exciting projects got axed and humankind lost a lot of progression. Congrats! We're going back in time. Fuck education and yay tax cuts to billionaires 🙄
Everyone wants to know if they did it, or at very least masturbated. No way they went 9 months without one or the other. I wonder what it's like in space?
People who followed space knew that the narrative was BS. It was yet another attempt by Trump to take credit for something that was already in motion and that he had no hand in
They were even later than they should have been because SpaceX was having problems building a new capsule
You watched history get edited a couple months ago when Trump pretended to order Musk around to defeat the President Musk narrative
Everything was already in motion before even the election
Crew-10 would have flown on a brand new capsule in Jan/Feb, but SpaceX were having problems with batteries
Hooray for her roots!
Lol.
Seriously, glad you are home safe whatever the circumstances, and enjoy the vacation after the doctors are done poking picking scanning jabbing inspecting....
Wow the horror! My father was “stuck” in Vietnam for over a year with 6 kids and a wife back home who had to worry about having enough to eat. And nothing but snail mail lol
From what I understand, Elon Musk's space capsule was docked to the ISS, and the crew could have been repatriated much earlier, but that didn't stop the South African billionaire from passing himself off as a hero-rescuer.
It was to put Trump up as the commander who told the billionaire to do something and he got it done
The reality was that they were having problems with a brand new Dragon and had to commandeer a craft from a private mission to get the Crew-10 mission up a couple months late
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Wait, you mean to tell me that Trump LIED? 😲
(source https://nasa.gov)
2. It sounds like it’s coming from the White House
It's <0.5% of the budget
Knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing is a terrible way to go through life
Otherwise we'd pay ULA $120M and its not human-rated yet
They were even later than they should have been because SpaceX was having problems building a new capsule
Space may be hostile, but so is terrestrial PR when reputations are on the line. Feels like we’re watching history get edited in real time.
Everything was already in motion before even the election
Crew-10 would have flown on a brand new capsule in Jan/Feb, but SpaceX were having problems with batteries
Gee, how shocking 😒
Lol.
Seriously, glad you are home safe whatever the circumstances, and enjoy the vacation after the doctors are done poking picking scanning jabbing inspecting....
MSM “stranded, starving, tortured astronauts saved!”
The reality was that they were having problems with a brand new Dragon and had to commandeer a craft from a private mission to get the Crew-10 mission up a couple months late