Trump asks SpaceX to 'go get' two stranded ISS astronauts. They're not stranded

[Jilly_in_VA]

SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced plans to bring home two NASA astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner capsule "as soon as possible," at the request of President Trump.

Musk, the head of President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, has played a crucial role in Trump's re-election campaign and the early days of the President's second term in office.

"I have just asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to "go get" the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Good luck Elon!!!"

The astronauts Musk and Trump are presumably referencing are NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. NASA has long said the crew isn't "stranded" and a plan to return them safely to Earth has been in place for months. In fact, NASA astronauts always train for lengthy missions and medical experts have kept a watchful eye on the health of the two during their extended stay.

The astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft after launching from Florida's Cape Canaveral in June 2024. The test flight was supposed to last only eight days. But engineers at NASA and Boeing uncovered issues with the spacecraft's propulsion system, and decided to return the vehicle back to Earth without a crew. The two have remained at the station ever since.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278636/iss-astronaut-rescue-spacex-trump

If this is as successful as Eloons's most recent efforts, the whole thing will blow up with all aboard.

[travelingthrulife]

1. Probably wants to bring them home so he can fire them.

[magicarpet]

8. The Orange Menace wants to brag his ass off.

Biden could not / would not save these astronauts and abandoned them up on the ISS.

trDUMP is the only one who can save them and bring them safely back to earth.

No wonder God and Jeezabuzz chose the Orange Messiah to rule AmeriKKKa. It takes a hyper macho manly alpha male to Make AmeriKKKa Great Again,... and right all that is wrong.

MAGA,.. USA,... USA.

[Eugene]

2. A routine event hyped to make Future Ruler of Mars look good.

[ck4829]

3. Astronauts respond: Uhhhh... no thanks. We're good.

[Silent Type]

4. Don't know about others, but if I had been passed over for reentry for months, I'd feel stranded and probably stroke

out from anxiety. But, I sure wouldn't feel better if Musk were coming after me. I think his last flight blew up.

[Greg_In_SF]

5. Oh they're stranded!

They went up in a vehicle that was incapable of bringing them home.

If you drive your car to Home Depot, and your car can't get you back home, you are stranded at Home Depot.

It's as simple as that

[Greg_In_SF]

7. SpaceX

has been to the International Space Station over twenty times

[EX500rider]

9. That's a rocket in testing, try the Falcon series:

Rockets from the Falcon 9 family have a success rate of 99.32% and have been launched 442 times over 15 years, resulting in 439 full successes, two in-flight failures (SpaceX CRS-7 and Starlink Group 9–3), one pre-flight failure (AMOS-6 while being prepared for an on-pad static fire test), and one partial failure (SpaceX CRS-1, which delivered its cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), but a secondary payload was stranded in a lower-than-planned orbit). The active version of the rocket, the Falcon 9 Block 5, has flown 374 times successfully and failed once (Starlink Group 9–3), resulting in the 99.73% success rate.

[struggle4progress]

10. NASA's plan to bring them back in February 2025 on a SpaceX rotation dates to August 2024

It really has nothing to do with Donny; and the phony Elon is only blowing a bunch of stinky noise about this right now