Spacex rescue mission now underway
A manned Spacex rescue mission has successfully launched. The booster, unlike NASA boosters came back to the launch pad and landed. Those who were only supposed to be at the space station for 8 days and wound up stranded for nine months are about to be rescued. The left which loves to vilify Elon Musk will the silent. The dishonest media won't make much of the story, but it is an enormous achievement.
If everything goes to plan, the capsule will dock at the ISS at 11:30 p.m. EDT Saturday (March 15). And if weather permits, U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be back by this coming Wednesday.
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In the opinion of yours truly, historians will remember Elon Musk as one of America's greatest innovators and entrepanuers.
Congrats Elon.
"Goodnight and good luck."
He will be considered similar to Edison. His accomplishments will be praised and his personal failures will be acknowledged.
If, however, he winds up creating a mess of the federal government, that will be noted against his accomplishments.
Musk is a brilliant, driven, successful serial entrepreneur who pushes progress. He is also a narcissistic asshole. Trump, however, is primarily a very successful con man rather than someone like Musk who gets things done, but he is a substantially stronger narcissistic asshole.
When did he become that. Before he bought Twitter, the left LOVED him.
So what? Who cares? They're our narcissistic assholes and are doing a good job of getting this country on the right track
Both men are saving our democracy and rooting out evil progressivism and all the corruption, waste, fraud, and abuse the left has caused to American
I doubt that this just happened; more than likely he has always been a narcissistic asshole. But the public first got wind of that during the Twitter takeover. Now with DOGE, the public (those who can break free of their Trump blindness) is seeing this in more stark and more significant terms.
It would not matter if the narcissistic assholes in question were doing good for the nation.
For example, I have no complaints (in fact, if you would pay even the slightest attention, I just praised him as "a brilliant, driven, successful serial entrepreneur who pushes progress") with his good accomplishments.
My criticism is on the bad he is doing. And, much worse, the increasing bad Trump is doing.
Not in reality.
Exactly my point.
Thanks for the confirmation.
So given this:
Your point is that Musk has always been a narcissistic asshole but the public first understood that when he acquired Twitter and fired most of the staff?
You know better:
Before he bought Twitter, the left LOVED him.
We agree that Musk fell out of favor when he ravaged Twitter.
We agree that Musk has almost certainly always been a narcissistic asshole.
Now you pretend as though I have argued that 'the left' always hated Musk.
Yet another blatantly dishonest post from you.
Again, this is what I wrote:
I counted everyone I know if they cared if Musk is a narcissistic asshole.
So far I am all the way up to zero.
Stranded seems like a dishonest media word.
Those who deserve vilifying cannot stop it from either side of the aisle
Thanks so much for your media assesment.
In a week where not one, but two Spacex Launch systems exploded spectacularly or disintegrated into an "unscheduled disassembly"
I would hardly call the second attempt an enormous achievement.
Like Mark Kelly and my old friend Chris McGinn it takes enormous courage just to be an astronaut and even thinking about riding the devil.
Stranded: left without the means to move from somewhere.
One had nothing to do with this, the other which did required perfect timing.
You can't escape from the fact that Spacex has saved NASA's ass.
BTW Spacex retrieves the booster rockets while the government entity just builds (on the taxpayer's dime) new ones.
There were multiple efforts to leave but the Boeing vessel just kept reporting more and more issues.
SPACEX reported two of their most recent launches did not explode spectacularly, they suffered from "unscheduled disassembly".
In the service of ones nation, astronauts are not stranded, they are merely awaiting new orders and keeping the ISS functioning while they await new transportation orders...
Hurry up and wait.
They have been under contract since August of 2024 to make a delivery and bring these two home,
if NASA had an emergency, they would have arranged something much sooner with Spacex, Boeing or Blue Virgin but it was not a life or death situation.
What's your point? Should I say BTW, one of the last three booster rockets missed it's target barge and sank into the ocean before exploding; March 3 another booster landed "somewhat successfully" on it's target barge but one engine kept burning, causing a leg to fail and the whole thing suffered "explosive consequences" after tipping over on it's side.
NASA has become a shell of itself since SpaceX started in 2015 but if NASA had the record of losses that Spacex has overcome we probably would not have a space program.
Spacex originally planned to reuse the boosters 5 times, then 10, now 40 times, if they can catch them and afford the losses.
Maybe he should pay more attention to Tesla so Spacex can continue to improve?
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That a private company has outdone the government.
Outdone the government? SpaceX has received at least $18 BILLION - and as much as $38 BILLION - in federal subsidies. They couldn’t have done shit without our taxpayer dollars.
Does it really matter?
The government had that money and could have done what Musk did.......but didn't
Vic is right.
A private company outdid the government. That is the way it is supposed to be.
The tax dollars will get spent regardless. The question is: who does it better, more efficiently? SpaceX or NASA.
I guess the government thinks SpaceX does.
Sounds like the best argument I've heard for continuing and encouraging private investment in the space program. Space exploration is a risky and dangerous business, which history has shown to be built on engineering and scientific trial and error. Without those willing to take the risks both to life and livelihood, there would never have been any advancement in this field.
Spacex, Blue Virgin. Nasa, Rocket Lab to name a few.
Rocket Lab just launched today from Whallop's in Virginia on the East Coast without incident, no debris reigning down on Poland, the Turks and Caicos or the Bahamas.
No one killed yet is our new barrommeter ?
You have to wonder how many folks would love to see a disaster
I hate to say, that we do have to wonder about such people.
I can think of one.
Can you name a few? Or is it only one? Maybe you could name that one?
Don't be shy, spit it out.
And then you would give me a ticket.
Yea, but when you acquire enough, you get to pick from the big furry prizes in the back row. Not sure how the 'right' gets this notion that those more center or to the left, want US to fail, no one has a problem with seeking, finding, and eliminating waste and fraud in government. The illegal and damaging way in which we got a Co-president mandate named Elon who thinks he can DOGE the Laws and the Constitution are another thing though. Possibly some might have a problem when a convicted felon lies his way into office claiming in about bringing prices down on day ONE, settling the Russia Ukraine conflict in ONE DAY, who should be in prison if our activated Supremes didn't interfere in the stolen documents and January 6th, and Georgia cases, he would not be 47.
Trump is the most unpatriotic sick in the fckn head dick, to ever preside over this country, bar nun, so get back to the ticket counter and fess up, cause I would !
The rest of this thread was removed for nasty remarks. Knock it off! Only warning.
No guts, no glory, they say...
Hopefully they can rescue the astronauts Biden left in space for six months
As someone likes to say, what an ignorant comment...
One would think everyone would be thankful SpaceX has the ability to rescue these Astronants from NASA’s debacle but sadly some are so deluded by “other factors” they aren’t. Not in the least.
Sad, very sad.
So if/when the astronauts return safely to Earth, Elon Musk gets all the credit? What for?
Did Elon design any of the equipment being used? Did he build it? Is he risking his life?
A very proletarian attitude. Surely he deserves significant credit for starting and maintaining the company that hired and pays those who toil there. For without his vision and management such an endeavor might not be possible.
UPDATE:
With floating hugs and smiles all around, the two NASA astronauts who crewed the ill-fated Boeing Starliner greeted their replacements aboard the International Space Station early Sunday morning.
The SpaceX Dragon vehicle carrying the four spacefarers selected for a mission known as Crew-10 successfully docked at the orbital outpost about 28 hours after launching from Florida. All of the 11 astronauts now aboard the station gathered for a short ceremony after the docking more than 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX Crew-10 mission makes it to the space station, greets Starliner astronauts
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The fact that the lift is so triggered over this article is kind of funny.
But not surprising.
What’s funny is how the right uses the word “triggered” to denigrate the left at all. Republicans are the most triggered party in the history of our government. The word “gay” is so triggering to you guys that even pictures of the Enola Gay have been banned.
It's not like anybody is lying about it.
See, that's some funny ass shit.
Lol. I’m surprised you all haven’t introduced legislation to remove the letters D, E, and I from the American alphabet. Soooo triggered.
More shit that is so stupid you can't help but laugh at.
UPDATE:
Splashdown is scheduled for approx. 5:57 EST today.
It has turned out to be a huge day for Donald Trump.
Cool, they won’t be, pardon my french, “stranded” anymore.
Nope, the long journey is over. We may learn much from it as we think about travel to Mars, which may involve year long trips.
I hope some here got to see it.
The splashdown was covered live on "Special Report."
Yep, good stuff. Did you see the capsule was visited by a pod of dolphins?
Really cool ….
Yes, I noticed. That was good to see as well. That part of the Gulf of America was once thought to be a dead zone.
There got it down right on the nose at 5:57 EST.
Gulf of Mexico. Trump is an idiot. This ridiculous move will be removed by the next PotUS (if the individual is anything like the other PotUS' in our lifetimes).
Not everyone thinks in partisan terms ... all the time. Musk has done some spectacular things and deserves credit for being a tech pioneer. He also has and is doing some very destructive things and should be criticized for same.
Reality is complicated. There are very few binary situations ... usually shades of gray.
Yes, that part of the Gulf of American has made a great comeback
I hope to see you tomorrow. There should be some interesting developements.
GOOD ONE LOL