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Marooned on Starliner Island

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4.8745 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Talk about overstaying your welcome… Boeing’s troubled Starliner remains docked at the International Space Station, some SIX TIMES LONGER than scheduled. NASA, once a world-striding giant of engineers, expert flight controllers and steeler-eyed test pilots has devolved into a standing army of the incompetent, the cowardly and the evasive. As Steve Green points out, it’s impossible to get a straight answer on what is going on up there… and the capsule gets older and less reliable by the day. Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0

Day 50, America held hostage. I'm Ted Cople. No, I'm not Ted Cople. I'm Steve Green, along with Bill

0:07.8

Whittle and Scott Ott, and this is right angle, right to by the members of Bill Wittle.com.

0:11.7

But gentlemen, it is day 50 of two Americans that were not supposed to call stranded on the

0:17.9

International Space Station. I'm talking about NASA, astronauts,

0:22.7

Butch Wilmore, and Sunni Williams,

0:28.2

and their Starliner capsule that has still not been rated safe to fly.

0:32.2

And this, as we're taping this on Friday, July 26,

0:37.4

it is day 50 of their week-long stay on board the ISS.

0:38.5

That's a long week.

0:40.4

And that's longer than a week, isn't it?

0:42.6

That much.

0:44.9

Yeah, that much longer.

0:47.9

Actually, I think it was supposed to be eight days, but at this point, who's counting?

0:50.0

Well, I'm sure they're counting at this point.

0:51.1

They'd probably like to get home.

0:59.9

And originally, I was going to call this day 523, America held hospice about Jimmy Carter,

1:01.9

but there's even less news on that one.

1:07.2

But more seriously, the reason I'm doing this story today is NASA held a press conference on Thursday with NASA Commercial Crew Program program chief Steve Stitch and I thought he'd

1:12.9

have some big news today like hey we did all those tests of white sands we know what the problem

1:18.3

is we're going to get a schedule to bring these guys home or gosh we give up we're going to send

1:24.6

a dragon crew up there and bring them home that way.

1:30.5

Instead, we got a whole lot and not much.

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