The plan for SpaceX to retrieve Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore has been planned for months.
The ship they will ride home on, the SpaceX Dragon Crew-9 is, in fact, docked on-station at the ISS right now. It's been there since AUGUST OF LAST YEAR.
Due to safety protocols, the ISS doesn't detach the return ship until a new ship is docked — so there's always a lifeboat on-station in case of emergency.
The new ship, SpaceX Crew-10, is scheduled to launch in March — and has been since long before Trump took office.
Williams and Wilmore are not stranded. They were reassigned to the International Space Station's crew after problems developed with the Boeing Starliner Calypso and it had to return to earth un-crewed for safety reasons. They aren't stranded. They weren't abandoned by the Biden Administration. They are NASA astronauts currently assigned to the ISS. That's their job and they certainly aren't complaining about getting time on orbit. Astronauts fight for that opportunity.
Trump's statement is just so much taking credit for something already done. Just like his "I sent the military to turn on the water in California."
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Yeah, but the news has been describing them as stranded for months. If you’re upset trump is framing it that way then you should figure out why the news has been saying it as a passing fact.
What’s particularly funny is that you’re parroting this npr article:
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278636/iss-astronaut-rescue-spacex-trump
Where they openly contradicted themselves prior to the election, when they didn’t feel like putting a semantic spin on their headlines:
Aug – https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5087892/nasa-starliner-astronaut-return-iss-spacex
Sep – https://www.npr.org/2024/09/13/nx-s1-5111634/stranded-nasa-astronauts-say-being-stuck-in-space-is-just-part-of-the-job
Sep – https://www.npr.org/2024/09/28/nx-s1-5132090/spacex-nasa-crew-9-launch
Seems to me like classic partisan bullshit.
How much of our taxpayer money is Trump going to pay Elon Musk for this service?
**Bribes with extra steps.**
good luck with a real conspiracy we can all see in front of our eyes in this sub.
I bet it chaps little Elon’s pride that his boss just publicly told the world that HE sent Elon to do this. Like a dog(e) obeying his master.
The reality is that they have been stranded longer than necessary so that Trump could have this moment. Something something, incompatible space suits..
‘Thank you for the rescue mr. pwesident…’
Think the astronauts are in on it?
When he gets there, will he accuse them of being pedos?
> The ISS doesn’t detach a return ship until a new one is docked, in case of emergencies…
I like that. So when an emergency pops up they have to wait until another ship docks to use the one already there!
WRONG! Woke Bidem broke the Boeing starliner with DEI and now Trump is going to use Elon’s MASCULINE MENERGY (yes, energy is now MENERGY according to the latest Executive Order – ‘Making words more BIGLY like Arnold Palmer’s unit’) to bring them back to earth so they can UNWOKE all the LIEbrul media. SHAME
Not a conspiracy. Jesus fucking Christ….
THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL NEWS SUB.
Anybody that posts this shit is garbage
Didn’t they reschedule the mission to 2026… That is why he is talking about it again?? I thought they had to reschedule the date that SpaceX will pick them up further back a couple of months, I think… Instead of 2025 it might be 2026??
i forgot about them ! i cant believe they r still in space 😭
Praise the orange messiah, he is our lord and savior!!!
Praise him!
2 Thessalonians 2:*^(9)* *The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with* ***all power, signs, and lying wonders****,* *^(10)* *and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.* *^(11)* *And for this reason* ***God will send them strong delusion****, that they should believe the lie,* *^(12)* *that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.*
“hopefully, all will be safe”
i would not want to read this as an astronaut lol