March 9, 2025
Rescuing astronauts who aren't stranded in space
By Mike McDaniel
In June of 2024, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams flew to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing’s Starliner. This was unfortunate, but unlike some of Boeing’s atmospheric products, not quite deadly. The Starliner developed thruster problems, which is a bad thing for a spacecraft that must precisely align itself with the ISS. Somehow, they made it to the relative safety of the aging ISS for what was supposed to be an eight to ten day stay.
Equally unfortunately, NASA couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the grandiosely named Starliner’s thrusters and wisely decided it might not be such a good idea to send Butch and Suni back in a ship they weren’t sure wouldn’t provide spectacular media visuals as it burned up on reentry, so they were—and I use the commonly understood term—stranded in space with no way to get back until NASA could figure out what was wrong with the Starliner and scrape up another rocket, which they couldn’t do—either of those things.
The Starliner made it back more or less intact, and Boeing apparently still can’t figure out what went wrong. In the meantime, NASA and Joe Biden’s handlers spent a great deal of energy explaining to Americans that Butch and Suni weren’t stranded in space, and how dare you even think such a thing? But we don’t have any way of bringing them back, do we? Americans asked. Shut up, Biden’s handlers and NASA explained.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/rescuing_astronauts_who_aren_t_stranded_in_space.html
