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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 2161 - NASA Astronauts Return, Trump Brokers Putin CEASEFIRE?!

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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NASA’s stranded astronauts return thanks to Elon Musk’s SpaceX; Vladimir Putin and President Trump hold their long-awaited call over Ukraine; and the economy continues to rest on a razor’s edge.   Click here to join the member-exclusive portion of my show: https://bit.ly/3WDjgHE   Ep.2161   - - -   Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings   - - -   DailyWire+:   We’re leading the charge again and launching a full-scale push for justice. Go to https://PardonDerek.com right now and sign the petition.   Now is the time to join the fight. Watch the hit movies, documentaries, and series reshaping our culture. Go to https://dailywire.com/subscribe today.   Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw   - - -   Today's Sponsors:   Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that searches the internet to deliver fast, unbiased, high-quality answers, with sources and in-line citations. Ask Perplexity anything here: https://pplx.ai/benshapiro   Birch Gold - Text BEN to 989898 for your free information kit.   Tax Network USA - For a complimentary consultation, call today at 1 (800) 958-1000 or visit their website at https://TNUSA.com/SHAPIRO   Tecovas - Right now get 10% off at https://tecovas.com/shapiro when you sign up for email and texts.   LifeLock - Visit https://LifeLock.com/BEN and save up to 40% your first year!   - - -   Socials:   Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53   Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ   Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd   Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So a very cool piece of news yesterday after nine months on the International Space Station,

1:14.3

286 days in space, according to the Washington Post, the NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and

1:18.9

Barry Butch Wilmore splashed down in their space exit dragon capsule off the coast of Florida

1:23.6

just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday. So originally, that flight on the Boeing Starliner was

1:28.8

supposed to last eight days, and they ended up up there for 286 days, which has to suck, to be honest with you.

1:37.4

Imagine that you're going to space, you're going to tell your family that you're going to see them

1:40.0

in a little over a week, and almost a year later, you're still up there. Now, depending on your family situation, maybe that's an unpaid vacation, but whatever it is,

1:48.3

it's not great.

1:49.6

And the failures of the Biden administration to work with Elon to actually get those people

1:54.1

down is pretty astonishing.

1:55.5

It really is because we are now a couple months into the Trump administration, and Musk is sending SpaceX, the much maligned Elon Musk is sending SpaceX

2:04.0

to, you know, rescue astronauts where they are stranded in space,

2:07.8

which also probably is the beginning of an amazing rom-com that'll come out in a year or two.

2:12.8

The astronauts have said that they were actually prepared to stay longer,

2:15.5

and they were eager to pitch in by conducting science experiments and maintenance aboard the orbiting laboratory. I'm sure they were. I mean, it probably gets pretty boring up there for a year. I hope that they at least liked each other. NASA officials said the decision about when and how to get them home was made based on safety and keeping the space station occupied, not politics. They were joined on their return trip by the NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russia's

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