I am too fucking lazy to write this all
Someone pls add the background context in the comments
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Astronauts like: “Oh no, we have to stay up longer in this place we’ve trained our whole lives to be in!” (12)
Yes, a little while longer, like 9 months. From the planned 8 DAYS. (2)
The press and politicians have been storytelling the crap out of this. This is what facts sound like when you don’t do that: Butch and Suni arrived to the ISS with the Starliner CFT mission in June, 2024. It was then decided that due to the issues with Starliner, they shouldn’t return on that spacecraft. Starliner undocked on September 6th and returned to Earth safely. SpaceX Crew-9 docked on September 29th. Butch and Suni did not have dedicated seats for an emergency return between September 6th and 29th. In the event of an emergency, requiring the evacuation of the ISS, they would have returned on Crew-8, strapped to a cargo pallette in the Crew Dragon spacecraft. As mentioned before, Crew-9 docked on September 29th, carrying a crew of only two instead of four, hence giving Butch and Suni dedicated seats and duties as crew on that mission with a planned return to Earth in February, 2025. In the event of an emergency, Crew-9 could have returned any time. The planned return in February, 2025 had to be delayed to likely late April, 2025, as SpaceX was unable to complete the new Dragon C213 spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission in time. A direct handover between crew is a high priority, so Crew-10’s launch delay would also delay Crew-9’s return. Crew-10 launched yesterday, with less delays than initially expected, due to the fact that the Dragon spacecraft was swappped to C210. Crew-10 will be on the ISS for around 6 months. Crew-9 is now scheduled to return no earlier than March 19th. (14)
This guy has been spamming this comment in every post, copy-pasting it. Trying to splurge out technicalities that are irrelevant to make it look different. Just check his profile. (-11)
They’re still up there? Holy Fu** (-11)
They weren’t technically stuck, they turned it into a mission (15)
THEY WEREN’T STUCK, * INHALES * THEY WEREN’T 😡😡😡 🌬️