What, Were They On Holiday? CBS News Claims Astronauts Enjoyed A 'Nine-Month Stay' In Space

Posted • March 15, 2025: In June of 2024, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams became the first to fly the Boeing Starliner capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission. But in what has to be, for them, the worst episode of Gilligan's Island ever, problems with the spacecraft made it unsafe to return to Earth, and nine months later, both astronauts are still stranded on the ISS. Not for much longer, however. As Twitchy's Amy Curtis reported, Elon Musk and Space X successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket yesterday to go up to the ISS and bring Wilmore and Williams back home. A two-person replacement crew is also aboard the rescue mission. Of course, as Twitchy readers know, there is a little bit more to this story, starting with the fact that the 'Space Czar' for the past four years before the Trump administration was … Kamala Harris. Of course, that means that NASA was far too concerned with making DEI videos to plan an earlier rescue.

Most damning, however, is the report from Wilmore himself. During an in-orbit press conference earlier in March, the astronaut confirmed that Musk had offered to send a rescue mission much sooner, but the Biden administration rejected the offer, almost certainly because they didn't want to give Donald Trump or Musk a 'win' before the election. “One questioner asked about Musk’s recent claim that former President Joe Biden had intentionally stalled their rescue for 'political reasons.' In an earlier question, Wilmore denied that politics had anything to do with the team’s delayed departure, but he seemed to shift his stance when answering the later question. 'I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual … I believe him,' he said.” —— Unbelievable. No matter how awful we think the last administration was, they always found a way to show us that they were worse.

However, now that the Falcon 9 and Crew 10 Dragon mission is underway, the legacy media is doing everything they can to try to wipe Americans' memories of Biden abandoning these two Americans in space. For instance, this tweet from CBS News about the Space X launch simply notes that the astronauts were enjoying a '9-month stay' in space. You know, kind of like an extended vacation, right? It gets worse inside the CBS story itself: “NASA's next International Space Station crew blasted off Friday, finally clearing the way for Starliner astronauts Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita Williams to be ferried home next week by two other outgoing station crew members, finally closing out an extended space odyssey.” —— A 'space odyssey'? Really, Stanley Kubrick? Biden stranded these people in outer space. He didn’t send them to a quaint countryside bed and breakfast. Geez. To the astronauts' credit, they have avoided using the term 'abandoned' until Wilmore's inadvertent admission earlier in March (or maybe it wasn't so inadvertent). (…)

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