Musk to rescue US astronauts stuck in space

 PJ Media:

NASA astronauts have been stranded on the International Space Station for nine months after what was meant to be a brief mission lasting less than two weeks. Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that former President Joe Biden refused his offer to bring them home early, allegedly because it would have made Donald Trump and his supporters “look good.”

Wilmore and Suni Williams launched from Cape Canaveral on June 4, 2024, aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule for its maiden voyage, only to face thruster failures and helium leaks. They’ve been stranded on the ISS ever since, as the Starliner was sent back to Earth without the crew. 

 Last week, one of the stranded astronauts confirmed Musk’s account.

During a video press conference last week, a Washington Post reporter asked, "Elon Musk has said that he made the offer to bring you guys back earlier and that it was denied… Is that true?”

“I can only say that what Elon Musk says is absolutely factual," astronaut Barry Wilmore replied. "I don't know all those details, and I don't think any of us really can give you the answer that maybe that you would be hoping for."

Thankfully, their long wait to return home is almost over. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 has arrived in Florida to prepare for Wednesday’s launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, which will finally bring astronauts Wilmore and Suni Williams back from the International Space Station.

...

I am glad the US has Elon Musk who can rescue the astronauts.  Biden should have taken him up on the original offer. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Washington Post: Some Democrats eye adding more justices to the Supreme Court to change its ideological bent The once-remote idea has gained the attention of liberals angered by the GOP push to remake the federal courts. Probably the easy way to defeat this court-packing scheme is for Trump to propose doing the same thing now.  It would lead to Democrat denunciations and claims that it would be wrong, thereby blowing up any attempt by them in the unfortunate event of Democrats winning a presidential election.
Read more

Is the F-35 obsolete?

Headline USA: Pentagon Fires Back after Musk Calls Its Most Expensive Project ‘Obsolete’ 'Yeah, as I'm sure you can appreciate, Mr. Musk is, currently, a private citizen, I'm not going to make any comments about what a private citizen may have to say about the F-35....'   ... ... Drones appear to be replacing jets for many operations.  The Russia-Ukraine war is an example of that.  Drones are often hard to detect and can be used for intelligence operations as well as for attacking enemy targets.  It would not surprise me to see drones engaging other drones in combat.  They also cost much less than manned fighters.  
Read more

29 % of companies say they are unlikely to keep insurance after Obamacare

Conn Carroll: A new survey of 368 midsize to large companies found that 29% of them are considering terminating their active employee health care plans when Obamacare is full implemented in 2014. Only 71% of employers surveyed said they did not expect to drop their health coverage, while 20% said they did not know and 9% said they were planning to exit. The latest survey, conducted by Towers Watson, echoes an ealier survey by McKinsey & Co. finding that 30% of private-sector employers were planning to drop their employee health insurance coverage by 2014. When the Congressional Budget Office crunched Obamacare's spending numbers, they estimated that only 7% of employees currently covered by employer-sponsored plans would lose their plans. ... This means the cost of the health care fiasco will be hundreds of billions more than estimated by the CBO and Congressional Democrat. It is also clear that Obama's pledge that you could keep your health care plan if you wanted t...
Read more