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<\/a>Butch & Suni – “See you next week” NOT!!!<\/p><\/div>\n
Watching a spectacular moonrise on the evening of the \u2018Supermoon blue moon\u2019<\/strong> a couple of weeks ago made me wonder about those two astronauts who have been circling the earth since June on a NASA mission that was supposed to last eight days.\u00a0 NASA now says that they may not be coming home until February 2025!\u00a0 <\/strong>So, eight days turned into eight months! \u00a0And you thought you had it bad when your last flight was delayed a couple of hours.\u00a0 The two U.S. astronauts, Butch Wilmore<\/strong> and Suni Williams<\/strong>, left Earth in Boeing\u2019s Starliner<\/strong> spacecraft.\u00a0 Yes, Boeing, that’s the same company that had trouble keeping a door on an Alaskan 737 aircraft during a flight in January of this year. \u00a0I\u2019ve since sold my stock in Boeing!\u00a0 And while the door didn\u2019t fly off the Starliner, the problem with their spacecraft seems to be that of helium leaks and thruster failure.\u00a0\u00a0 To dumb that down for you, if the spacecraft was a man, he would have gas and erectile dysfunction.<\/p>\n Men pushing Boeing Starliner to get it started<\/p><\/div>\n I initially imagined these two astronauts circling the earth at 17,505 miles per hour<\/strong> in their 15-foot wide capsule<\/strong> and having to figure out how they were going to survive for the next six months on what they brought with them.\u00a0 It would be like planning a weekend trip to the mountains and being snowed in all winter \u2013 think Donner Party<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 When I thought that was the case, here are some things that crossed my mind:<\/p>\n As it turns out, the Boeing spacecraft isn\u2019t going to be their home for the next six months, as they were able to catch a passing Uber, in the form of the ISS (International Space Station),<\/strong> and successfully dock with it.<\/p>\n ISS Uber<\/p><\/div>\n However, the capacity of the ISS they boarded is seven <\/strong>people, and before Butch and Suni joined the party, there were already seven on board \u2013 six men, three Russian cosmonauts<\/strong>, an American chemist, an American physician, an American Navy test pilot, and one woman, an American aerospace engineer.\u00a0 So, I’m guessing there was \u2018no room in the Inn\u2019<\/strong> for these two stranded American astronauts.\u00a0 We\u2019ve not been told what they were doing to accommodate these additional freeloaders.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping it wasn\u2019t something like Russian roulette, where the Russians would seem to have a clear advantage.\u00a0 With zero gravity, do the newcomers have to sleep by just floating in mid-air in the kitchen, or does everyone just float in mid-air all night when sleeping?\u00a0 And the big question, is there enough wine to get the nine of them through Christmas and New Year’s, although the Russians probably brought their own vodka?<\/p>\n There is a precedent for being trapped in space, in 1991, Russian Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev<\/strong> was told that he could not return home because the country that had promised to bring him back home, the Soviet Union<\/strong>, no longer existed.\u00a0 He eventually did get back to Earth after 311 days in space<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure NASA will figure out a way to get our astronauts back home, after all, they\u2019ve got Boeing<\/strong> working on it right now! \u00a0Not!!! \u00a0Boeing has been fired; the astronauts will be coming home aboard a SpaceX<\/strong> capsule.<\/p>\n As I\u2019ve thought about the pluses and minuses of being isolated in space until next February, I\u2019ve concluded that the big plus is that they will miss out on all the political bullshit the rest of us have to endure from now until November 5th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Where do I sign up to get lost in space for the next three months?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow Watching a spectacular moonrise on the evening of the \u2018Supermoon blue moon\u2019 a couple of weeks ago made me wonder about those two astronauts who have been circling the earth since June on a NASA mission that … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Boeing-Starliner3-300x225.jpg\")
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