Space X Rescue mission docks at ISS
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The mission was launched on March 14. NYT reported it.
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Orbital mechanics is deeply confusing.
By the way, one of the totally not-stranded astronauts claims that they weren't retrieved a while ago is because the Biden administration didn't want SpaceX to get the glory.
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@Mik said in Space X Rescue mission docks at ISS:
Yeah, I kind of doubt that.
+Musk reiterated it. I presume he has receipts.
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@jon-nyc interesting. Thanks.
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Musk's claim is that he offered to bring them back earlier, and was refused. This does not refute that claim. The claim may be a lie, or a half-truth, but that does not refute it.
The politics of it are not impossible to believe, that Biden's handlers didn't want to hand him a big PR win during the campaign.
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https://www.wusf.org/2025-03-19/how-astronauts-adjust-when-back-on-earth-after-being-in-space
After Wilmore and Williams' capsule landed, post-mission recovery and medical teams met the astronauts and transported them to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. While there, they will undergo "a progressive 45-day post-mission recovery program," NASA says. During this time, the crew will have medical and performance testing, participate in studies and follow a "structured reconditioning program."
They'll spend two hours every day with trainers, working on a personalized recovery plan to work back toward the fitness levels they had before they left on their mission, NASA says.
and (from another astronaut
And at one point while still getting adjusted to being back on Earth, he forgot he could no longer float.
"I was like, laying in bed. I had to go to the bathroom and I just started pushing off my back thinking, 'I'm going to float to the bathroom.' And the light was out and I'm pushing up and I roll out of bed," he says.
