JaxBill
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@tropicalupdate: The sky was on fire! Anyone see the rocket launch. I got some footage on my drone. Post your pics here! This one from Denyse Holze. https://twitter.com/tropicalupdate/status/1385537262490988548/photo/1
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JaxBill
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long video where dragon separates
@Evilzorac: @LewTurner @WeatherLauren Here you go Lew. https://twitter.com/Evilzorac/status/1385543568522190848/video/1
JaxBill
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@RobertSpetaWX: Did not see it but for sure heard it, I know most of you in NE Florida heard it as well. Was a sonic boom from the Dragon Capsule returning. https://twitter.com/Jayrod2009/status/1443770626750156800
CletiusMaximus
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SpaceX won the World Cup? https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845442658397049011
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FarFromHome
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SpaceX, for the second time, has now caught the booster. Clip is worth watching. Absolutely amazing. My words cannot express how impressive this is. Just crazy. Well done. We did actually lose the starship portion, but hey what can you do. Ha ha. The catch is straight out of Star Trek or something. Just blown away and proud of this great nation. America!!!
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My buddy bought himself the SpaceX Starship Torch for Christmas and it is awesome: https://shop.spacex.com/products/starship-torch
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He paid $250 to someone on ebay. We've been using it to light cigars. You have to keep the whole thing well away from your face. Highly recommended.
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He paid $250 to someone on ebay. We've been using it to light cigars. You have to keep the whole thing well away from your face. Highly recommended.
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FarFromHome
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Hell ya.
FarFromHome
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Thanks for posting. I hadn't seen the actual footage of the starship returning to earth. Hopefully no one was hurt from debris.
Chaos34
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Thanks for posting. I hadn't seen the actual footage of the starship returning to earth. Hopefully no one was hurt from debris.
too close for comfort but seems maybe something hit south caicos. otherwise some sailors may have suspected an alien attack.
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FarFromHome
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Pretty good day for Space X. Welcome home everyone.
rustycolts
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Only thing that I was wondering was what does off the coast of Tallahassee mean?
Dickies
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This is great news.
rustycolts
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So I heard on one of the news shows today an astronaut that had been on the space station say that those that were there weren't really stranded. Anyone know what he was talking about?
rustycolts
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This is what grok said about that.
The situation with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, who spent over nine months on the International Space Station (ISS), has indeed been a point of contention in how it’s been portrayed. The term "stranded" has been widely used in media headlines, but it doesn’t fully align with the astronauts' own statements or NASA’s operational perspective.
Wilmore and Williams launched on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June 2024 for what was planned as an eight-day mission. Due to technical issues with Starliner—specifically propulsion problems—NASA deemed it unsafe for their return, extending their stay on the ISS. They ultimately returned to Earth on March 18, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, alongside astronauts Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov, after 286 days in space.
The astronauts themselves have pushed back against the "stranded" narrative. In a September 2024 news conference from the ISS, they emphasized they didn’t feel abandoned or stuck, saying they were trained to handle unexpected situations and were committed to their roles. Wilmore later reiterated this in February 2025 to CNN, asking for the narrative to shift to "prepared and committed" rather than "stranded." NASA officials, including commercial crew program manager Steve Stich, have also framed the extended stay as a deliberate choice for safety, noting that the plan to bring them home via SpaceX was set in August 2024, with custom-fitted seats installed on the Dragon capsule that arrived in September.
However, the "stranded" label isn’t entirely baseless from a layperson’s view. Their mission ballooned from a week to over nine months due to equipment failure, and they relied on a different spacecraft for return, which could feel like being stuck if you’re not steeped in spaceflight logistics. Public sentiment on platforms like X reflects this divide—some users call it a media exaggeration, while others see it as a failure of NASA or Boeing to execute the original plan.
So, were they "really stranded"? Not in the sense of being abandoned or without options—NASA had a contingency in place, and the ISS is a stable, occupied platform. But the dramatic extension of their mission due to Starliner’s issues gives the term some emotional truth, even if it’s not technically precise. The astronauts and NASA managed the situation, but it’s easy to see why the news leaned into a more gripping story.
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The situation with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, who spent over nine months on the International Space Station (ISS), has indeed been a point of contention in how it’s been portrayed. The term "stranded" has been widely used in media headlines, but it doesn’t fully align with the astronauts' own statements or NASA’s operational perspective.
Wilmore and Williams launched on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June 2024 for what was planned as an eight-day mission. Due to technical issues with Starliner—specifically propulsion problems—NASA deemed it unsafe for their return, extending their stay on the ISS. They ultimately returned to Earth on March 18, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, alongside astronauts Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov, after 286 days in space.
The astronauts themselves have pushed back against the "stranded" narrative. In a September 2024 news conference from the ISS, they emphasized they didn’t feel abandoned or stuck, saying they were trained to handle unexpected situations and were committed to their roles. Wilmore later reiterated this in February 2025 to CNN, asking for the narrative to shift to "prepared and committed" rather than "stranded." NASA officials, including commercial crew program manager Steve Stich, have also framed the extended stay as a deliberate choice for safety, noting that the plan to bring them home via SpaceX was set in August 2024, with custom-fitted seats installed on the Dragon capsule that arrived in September.
However, the "stranded" label isn’t entirely baseless from a layperson’s view. Their mission ballooned from a week to over nine months due to equipment failure, and they relied on a different spacecraft for return, which could feel like being stuck if you’re not steeped in spaceflight logistics. Public sentiment on platforms like X reflects this divide—some users call it a media exaggeration, while others see it as a failure of NASA or Boeing to execute the original plan.
So, were they "really stranded"? Not in the sense of being abandoned or without options—NASA had a contingency in place, and the ISS is a stable, occupied platform. But the dramatic extension of their mission due to Starliner’s issues gives the term some emotional truth, even if it’s not technically precise. The astronauts and NASA managed the situation, but it’s easy to see why the news leaned into a more gripping story.
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BassNBrew
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Elon mentioned on the Rogan show that he could have retrieved them awhile ago but it was delayed due to what he hinted as political reasons. I'm not advocating either way on the truth of that, just saying that this is where this may have come from.
fatness
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https://www.cnn.com/science/live-ne...urn-spacex-03-18-25#cm8dgt1bg00053b6m5ypm0yrd
"Musk has suggested that he offered to fly a separate rescue mission to retrieve the astronauts — perhaps expediting their return by months — to someone within the Biden White House (not NASA, in Musk’s words) but his proposal was denied. The details of that offer and to whom it was directed have not been made clear. A former senior Biden White House official and former senior NASA official told CNN they never heard such an offer.
Notably, NASA had said in December that it was expecting to delay Crew-9’s return because of SpaceX. Specifically, the company was tracking some hangups preparing a new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for Crew-10 — a handover mission with a fresh astronaut crew that had to arrive at the space station before Crew-9, carrying Wilmore and Williams, was allowed to disembark. NASA and SpaceX later opted to use a different capsule for the Crew-10 mission, a pre-flown Dragon vehicle."
Outstanding. Great job Space X.
My buddy bought himself the SpaceX Starship Torch for Christmas and it is awesome: https://shop.spacex.com/products/starship-torch
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He paid $250 to someone on ebay. We've been using it to light cigars. You have to keep the whole thing well away from your face. Highly recommended.
That's awesome.
fatness
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During a ground test, a SpaceX rocket exploded the other day, which will delay the next test flight. Thankfully nobody was hurt.
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SpaceX’s next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas
SpaceX had high hopes for Starship in 2025, but it’s been one setback after another.
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BlackCrowes
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that was a heck of a boom
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