A few weeks earlier:
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“Looks like they’re stranded”
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“They’re not stranded, they can return any time they want!”
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“We don’t want to ride on a Boeing. We’ll take the next ride.”
“It’s the space x.”
“You mean the space NEXT? Isn’t there the Dream Chaser? We like that one.”
Fuck it - just send up some fucking parachutes… we’ll do it the safer way.
The red bull way
It’s not a rescue mission. It was an already scheduled mission which is why it’s 6 months long. Two of the originally scheduled crew got their seats bumped so the boeing capsule test asteonauts would have seats for a normal return. Wilmore and Wiliams could have returned in the other spacex capsule that was already up there in case of emergency. They were never stranded.
The word launch is very overloaded here.
