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Sunday, 16 March 2025

Just don't mention Musk



Nasa’s stranded astronauts welcome newly arrived replacements to International Space Station


Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts.

The four newcomers — representing the U.S., Japan and Russia — will spend the next few days learning the station’s ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then the two will strap into their own SpaceX capsule later this week to close out an unexpected extended mission that began last June.



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4 comments:

James Higham said...

Sounds rather jolly to me … or are we not meant to feel some elation? 🤔

Sam Vega said...

When the SpaceX vehicle arrived, NASA's stuck astronauts disabled it by pouring orange liquid over it and carving 'Nazi' into it.
"Don't think we haven't been watching the news up here!", said Butch Wilmore.

Sam Vega said...

Update: I've only just seen your response in the last post. Great minds think alike!

A K Haart said...

James - it is rather jolly, but elation seems to be curiously muted at the Independent.

Sam - ha ha, yes great minds do think alike!