Astronauts WANT TO FLY. That's why their posts, and that of the space station commander, directly contradicted Elmo Musk's lies.

I've had to delete a thread before when it was posted just seconds after another OP on the same story.

have posted a breaking story while you were writing your own OP about it, and if so, it'll have shown up in that list of recent OPs, and so you just forget about posting what would be a duplicate. I've scrapped a lot of OPs I'd planned to post at that stage. Sometimes DUers post at almost exactly the same second anyway, and then you have to check the URL to see which was first, and if yours was second, even if the posted time in minutes is the same, it's best to delete yours and save the hosts from having to check URLs and delete it.

so what now we have to beg the Russians.

...is the standard rotation time on the space station

Can go farther and collect more data than human missions. Stop sending humans into space.

Early in his administration TSF said Biden left them stranded and the astronauts said that was not the case and that this pick up date was the actual plan from the beginning.
They questioned dear leader and now they are going to make them suffer for it.

F'elon and the Felon love to give 'wins' to Russia.

.. instantaneous. A few seconds at most. If everything isn't perfect, you don't launch.

Can we reliably go to the grocery store? Almost 40,000 Americans die in car crashes each year, most within a few miles of home.

... in my former (pre - retirement) life, I've educated astronauts. Five of my students flew the shuttle, more to the space station.

This is BULLSHIT. Astronauts WANT to fly. My 10 days jaunt has been extended to six months? Lots of food, water, and air? I'm in no danger, lots of productive work to do on the station.... YES!!!!!!

Elmo Musk wanted to be paid for another launch, and the Murrican press gets their Astronautical Engineering knowledge from Lost in Space.

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