“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.”

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[–] socialmedia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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.

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.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 3 points 5 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.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

but for some reason it couldn't be done until early this year. Something about the launch schedule.

I believe the reasoning was as follows: if you're going to launch a four-person capsule to retrieve two astronauts, you might as well fill the extra two seats with two more astronauts. And if you're going to launch two more astronauts, you might as well have them stay for a while.