Saturday, February 15, 2025

Early Return from ISS, Hopefully

NASA announced on Tuesday that they are likely to bring Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore – the two US astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight and have been in low-Earth orbit since June last year – home sooner. 

Meaning, they intend to switch to the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to launch the Crew-10 mission on March 12 "pending mission readiness". 

The Crew Dragon Endurance will carry a four-personnel team of NASA astronauts Anne McClain, and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov to the space station for a six-month-long mission. And a week later, the Crew-10 mission will bring Williams and Wilmore and their teammates, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov home on March 19.

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday, Williams and Wilmore broadcasted that contrary to the popular narrative, they don’t feel abandoned, they don’t feel stuck, they don’t feel stranded! πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

This, of course, contradicted claims from President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that the astronauts were left high and dry by the previous Joe Biden administration.

I wish the two can remain in the International Space Station longer and perhaps even outlast the two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, who hold the record for the longest stay at 374 days. And then see if they still hold the same sentiment! πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‰

Since the Ukrainian military crossed the Russian border into Kursk in August 2024, they have sacrificed more than 60,000 service members, 363 tanks, 263 infantry fighting vehicles, 213 armored personnel carriers, 435 artillery guns, 48 multiple launch rocket systems, including 13 US-made HIMARS and six MLRS, 20 air-defense systems, 108 electronic warfare systems, as well as hundreds of cars and dozens of pieces of other military equipment (RT News, February 13, 2025).

They continue to bleed non-stop every day. And these Ukrainians still think they are winning the war. They're deleteriously delusional!

URRRAAAA! Slava Russia!




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