• alkbch@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Yes, I am aware of the situation. The astronauts were stranded. Full stop. Whatever Musk may or may not have proposed when Biden was president is irrelevant to my statement.

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        The fact is they were stranded. They couldn’t go back to Earth when initially planned, nor at any time before the following mission ended.

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          The fact is they were stranded.

          The astronauts said “we don’t feel abandoned, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded”, because they were prepared for this contingency. And they object to this nonsense framing too: “Help us change the rhetoric, help us change the narrative. Let’s change it to ‘prepared and committed.”

          They couldn’t go back to Earth when initially planned, nor at any time before the following mission ended.

          You are simply mistaken. At all times there were multiple options available for them to go back early if it ever became necessary to.

          Changing the planned duration of a mission is not the same as being “stranded”.

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            Yes they could go back to Earth in case of an emergency and would have to take the other passengers with them prior to the end of their missions. They couldn’t not return to Earth simply because they decided they wanted to go back.

            It’s great they didn’t feel stranded though, makes it less unpleasant to pass time while being stranded there.

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              They were not “passing the time” (more than people on ISS always are… 🤡).

              The decision was made in August that they would join the Expedition 71/72 crew.

              As a result, Stephanie Wilson and Zena Cardman did not get to fly on Crew-9.

              Yes they could go back to Earth in case of an emergency and would have to take the other passengers with them prior to the end of their missions.

              It would have been prior to the end of their own missions as well, since they became members of Expedition 72.

              They couldn’t not return to Earth simply because they decided they wanted to go back.

              Do you think astronauts ever go to space with the expectation that they can “return to Earth simply because they decided they wanted to go back”? 😂