Weeks from homecoming, Boeing Starliner astronauts want to set the record straight | CNN
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The two astronauts who piloted the Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight responded to a claim from President Donald Trump that the pair were “abandoned.”

“That’s been the rhetoric. That’s been the narrative from day one: stranded, abandoned, stuck — and I get it. We both get it,” Wilmore said. “But that is, again, not what our human spaceflight program is about. We don’t feel abandoned, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded.”

  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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    6 days ago

    If there was justice then Elon would get spacex yanked away from him or shutdown.

    If there were justice, Boeing would be bankrupt.

    The plan was always for spacex to rescue them, but for some reason it couldn’t be done until early this year. Something about the launch schedule.

    Yep, because sending a ship to the ISS is like calling an Uber to get you home, right…
    Of course the plan was always for SpaceX to rescue them, they are the only ones that have the capability and a working ship. But that does not means that they can cram another unscheduled launch with such short notice on top of the schedule they already have.

    Now for him to claim that the astronauts were abandoned by the previous administration while saying they can’t be rescued yet says either maliciousness or incompetence.

    To be honest, that is what I was reading from the start of this story basically everywere, it is not that Musk said something no one ever said.

    So, I get the you dislike Musk, but accusing him for not readily solve a problem created by the incompetence of others (Boeing) does not seems that fair.