Wandy Rodriguez
320 posts

Wandy Rodriguez
@JustFlyAndRock
Yankee fan since 2006’. Active Reserved Airman. I usually Fly fighter jets.
เข้าร่วม Nisan 2020
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Reminder: These 2 idiots should be in jail
Kevin W.@Brink_Thinker
I still can’t imagine the thought process that goes into deciding to do this
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@jvnior @ChineseEmbinUS A war we will lose. China has been around wayyyyyyy longer than the USA. They’ve seen countries rise and fall. We are totally fucked
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@wnbcdesk Yes, i am the exclusive owner. You have my right
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@JustFlyAndRock Hi, can NBC use your video across our platforms and partners with credit to you?
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@AmandaJ_TX Yes. I am the exclusive owner. You have my right
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@JustFlyAndRock Hi - I work at CNN. Can CNN use your video on all CNN media, worldwide in perpetuity along w/ affiliate distribution? Do you confirm you are exclusive owner of the video, did not create the video using AI, & have all the necessary rights to authorize use of the video? Thank you.
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Wandy Rodriguez รีทวีตแล้ว

@Erdayastronaut @elonmusk I can at least assure you, Your relationship with @elonmusk has sink to the bottom. I thought your profile didn’t involve any political arguments but boy I was wrong @Erdayastronaut
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@Erdayastronaut @elonmusk Lol I knew you was gonna tweet this. (What a coincidence)
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The astronauts were only supposed to be up there for 8 days and now have been there for 8 months.
SpaceX could have sent up another Dragon and brought them home 6 months ago, but the Biden White House (not NASA) refused to allow it.
President Trump asked to bring them back as soon as possible and we are doing so.
@amuse@amuse
NASA: Turns out Elon Musk was telling the truth. Biden refused to let the stranded astronauts to come home last year for political reasons.
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@DaveH1160 @QondiNtini This is from page 44. Medicaid is under the jurisdiction of the Energy and Commerce committee. The only way E&C can cut 880 billion from “laws within its jurisdiction” is by cutting hundreds of billions from medicaid. nothing else under their portfolio even comes close to that.

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Elon, I have long admired you and what you have accomplished, especially at SpaceX and Tesla.
You know as well as I do, that Butch and Suni are returning with Crew-9, as has been the plan since last September. Even now, you are not sending up a rescue ship to bring them home. They are returning on the Dragon capsule that has been on ISS since last September.
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What a lie.
And from someone who complains about lack of honesty from the mainstream media.
Acyn@Acyn
Hannity: You’re going to help rescue two astronauts Musk: They were left up there for political reasons
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@Erdayastronaut This is from one of your tweets I quote” Boeing being excused over their lack of performance is not exclusive to the Biden administration” 😂🤦🏻♂️ prove me wrong your not showing Some significant bias

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@JustFlyAndRock What about this is political? It's really anti-disinformation and clickbait. The fact that people have no idea what's going on in this situation because of misleading headlines is what I have a problem with.
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This is SUCH a complicated topic and many people are voicing opinions with some basic facts missing. Please allow me a few minutes to explain this situation in depth:
Let's start at the beginning...
SpaceX and Boeing were hired in 2014 to provide commercial crew services to the ISS for NASA. SpaceX was the first to successfully fly and safely return crew with operational flights beginning in 2020.
Boeing had an unsuccessful test flight in 2019 which required a redo in 2022 which was considered successful despite a few thruster malfunctions, it safely flew the mission to and from the ISS.
It should be noted, that Boeing received nearly double the amount SpaceX did for the Commercial Crew Program, mostly for "timeline assurance" - ironic
This eventually led to the flight of Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test with Butch and Suni in June, 2024. Immediately once on orbit, the vehicle experienced thruster issues and small helium leaks which were more off-nominal than they would've liked.
The safest thing to do was to dock to the ISS where they could further test and figure out the exact issue and determine the safest thing to do next.
The ISS was their original destination and once on Station, the Crew was safe AND had work to do as highly trained NASA astronauts, station keeping, and doing research and science.
During this period, there technically wasn't a known, safe way to get Butch and Suni back, so NASA and SpaceX devised a way to have them return as the 5th and 6th crew on the Crew-8 Dragon, C206 Endeavour in the case of an emergency on station.
After a few months of testing, NASA decided the safest thing to do was to have the Boeing Starliner return uncrewed, which would free up that docking port to allow the Crew-9 SpaceX Dragon Capsule a place to dock.
So in September, the malfunctioning Starliner returned (safely), uncrewed, and for about two weeks the official way off the station in an emergency was by being the 5th and 6th crew inside the Crew-8 Dragon capsule, but then on September 29th, Crew-9 docked to the ISS.
THIS MEANS, THE SPACEX CREW DRAGON CAPSULE THAT IS DEEMED TO "RESCUE" / UN-"ABANDON" / "SAVE" BUTCH AND SUNI HAS ALREADY BEEN DOCKED TO THE ISS SINCE SEPTEMBER. People seem to be missing this point.
And here's where this all gets pretty complicated...
NASA / Roscosmos flew Crew-9 with only Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov so there would be two seats available to return Butch and Suni from the ISS. They even brought up two SpaceX space suits with them since the Boeing Starliner ones weren't compatible with Dragon.
Normally, the ISS crews do 6 month stays with overlapping "expeditions" where half the crew basically rotates out every three months. What it really means is, GENERALLY, you go up on one spacecraft, you come down on that same one.
And crewed spacecraft come up every 3 months, basically play a game of tag, and they swap with half the crew that's currently onboard. They alternate, US Commercial Crew and Russian Soyuz vehicles. Sometimes these schedules change, and sometimes missions have crew on much longer than 6 months, with the record and the safe timeframe being considered about one year.
So the plan has been to have Butch and Suni join Crew-9. This means they are part of Expedition 71, 72 AND 73 on the ISS. Basically they got to do an extra expedition, something that I think most professional astronauts might see as a good thing.
Since normally you don't have a crew leave the ISS until their replacements arrive, this means Crew-9 isn't slated to leave until Crew-10 arrives.
In December it was revealed that Crew-10 is targeting no earlier than March because the particular SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that was slated to be used for that mission is not yet ready because it is brand new and there was still fabrication, assembly, testing and final integration of the vehicle necessary before it flew.
This Crew Dragon, C213, is the fifth and likely final Dragon Capsule that will be built. So why are they waiting on a brand new spacecraft to launch Crew-10? Why aren't they just using one of the other 5 to fly Crew-10 sooner and get Butch and Suni home sooner?
Well, C207 Resilience flew Polaris Dawn and is modified for free flying and is docking-portless at the moment, and will be flying Fram-2 soon. C206 Endeavor is undergoing refurbishment as planned after its 5th flight. C212 Freedom is currently docked to the ISS and C210 is currently slated to fly Axiom-4.
So what options are there?
What if they really do say "just bring them home already!!!"... well it causes a bit of a mess.
First off, they would abandon their expedition 72 crew mate, Don Pettit, to be the only person onboard the US segment of the ISS. Leaving him alone to do all station keeping, leaving virtually no time to do science or research, he'd become a full time janitor / maintenance man until he was relieved of his duties.
It should be noted that when they increased crew size from a crew of 3 to a crew of 4, the amount of science that could be done nearly doubled, which goes to show just how much time and energy it takes to keep the station operational for a crew.
Another option is rush completion and certification of the C213 Dragon and fly Crew-10 earlier, which I think we all agree is a terrible option, and likely one SpaceX wouldn't sign off on, no matter how much pressure there is from up top.
Another option is to switch Crew-10 to fly on C210, which is also not great since the Crew has been training specifically to certify and test out C213 as part of their mission. Swapping two crews' hardware at this point would be fairly negligent too.
Lastly, the option is to just wait until Crew-10 arrives, swap the crews per usual and allow Butch and Suni to fly home on Crew-9's Dragon Capsule once Crew-10 is settled in and operating the station.
This is the option NASA, and ultimately SpaceX, chose. These are just plain and simple the facts of the situation, hopefully it helps you develop an informed and nuanced opinion on this complicated subject matter.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
The @POTUS has asked @SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the @Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so. Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.
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@Erdayastronaut lol your political views are showing buddy
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I'm waiting for the headlines to read "Stranded Astronauts leaves station and float off in space" after Suni's and Butch's spacewalk today. Again, they're busy doing work and living their dream career of being an astronaut, living and working in space - youtube.com/watch?v=wQD4fT…

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@jeff_foust ( not in his administration, of course) lol are you a witch-hunter who determines someone’s future ?
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@PsnTimdog @PrimeJynx_ @JonHeyman Just like you saw 86’ when Reagan was president, I saw 09’ with Obama being in office 😂. And no I was 11 at the time.
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@JustFlyAndRock @PrimeJynx_ @JonHeyman You never saw a World Series in your lifetime lol don’t start saying I was 3 years old hahahahah
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