Article Stranded astronaut says Elon Musk is “absolutely factual” on Dragon’s delayed return

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For the sake of sensitivities, I would have put quotation marks around "stranded" in the title, but not enough room left in the title box.
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Butch and Suni send mixed messages on whether politics delayed their return
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/bu...ir-return/

INTRO: Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are due to return home on a Crew Dragon spacecraft in a couple of weeks. For two of the crew members, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, it has been a long, strange trip.

To recap:

Wilmore and Williams launch on the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 5, 2024

During Starliner's flight to the International Space Station, the vehicle has thruster issues and helium leaks

In August, NASA announces Starliner will return to Earth uncrewed due to unresolved technical issues

Crew 9 mission launches with just two astronauts, NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Aleksandr Gorbunov, in late September

Wilmore and Williams join Crew 9, extending their flight from eight days to more than eight months

After SpaceX experiences a development issue with a Crew Dragon, Crew 9's return is delayed a month more, to March

In February 2025, Elon Musk and Donald Trump politicize Wilmore and Williams' long-duration stay

When a European astronaut calls Musk out for his "lie" about this, Musk replies, "You are fully retarded."

Musk recommends space station be deorbited as soon as 2027, three years ahead of schedule. (MORE - details)

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Picking from two of the many comments..

Can we please get the headline changed from
Butch Wilmore says Elon Musk is “absolutely factual” on Dragon’s delayed return
to
Butch Wilmore says Elon Musk is “absolutely factual” on Dragon’s delayed return; [and] Immediately contradicts himself

you're out there in space reliant on two raging narcissist assholes to get you home safely.