Reporting on Elon Musk’s SpaceX mission to rescue the two astronauts stranded on the ISS, CBS News made it sound like they have been on an extended holiday.
This X post linking to a story notes that NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have had a “9 month stay in space.”
A SpaceX rocket launches as part of a mission to bring home two Starliner astronauts after a 9-month stay in space. https://t.co/TxdZ5iPo9m
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 14, 2025
Then within the story itself, CBS states “NASA’s next International Space Station crew blasted off Friday, finally clearing the way for Starliner astronauts Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita Williams to be ferried home next week by two other outgoing station crew members, finally closing out an extended space odyssey.”
The Biden administration, so worried about giving Elon Musk a win, left them stranded in space for over half a year, and CBS News calls it a "stay." You know, like a vacation or something. https://t.co/b0yRWYdBcr
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 14, 2025
The pair were not inter-railing around Europe, they were left in space by the Biden administration on purpose after the Boeing Starliner capsule they travelled in was deemed unsafe for return.
A “stay in space.” ??
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) March 15, 2025
They’ve been stranded there for months.
You all are beyond parody.
Biden stranded these people in outer space. He didn’t send them to a quaint countryside bed and breakfast. Geez. https://t.co/9GVhKYxoUD
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 15, 2025
They were supposed to be in space eight days, and could have been brought back months ago by Musk, but the Biden administration refused his offer of help, presumably because he had endorsed Trump.
You don’t hate the media enough.
Gilligan's Island: ISS Edition
— Ryan Duff (@ryancduff) March 14, 2025
“Stay.”
— JW (@C130GuyBNA) March 15, 2025
That’s nice. What a lovely “stay.”
“WWII soldiers came to briefly fight Germany but many ended up with an extended STAY in lovely green fields around Europe…”
Spin spin, spin spin.
It’s surprising enough that they’re covering the story at all given how much vitriol they have for Musk.
The ISS now offers air b-n-b?
— Chromium4500 (@Chromium4500) March 15, 2025
"A stay" is an odd turn of phrase to use when astronauts have been abandoned due to a flawed Boeing spacecraft stranding them there and President Biden leaving them there until it was someone else's problem.
This is not journalism, it's activism.
FYI Biden even joked about stranding them pic.twitter.com/Z6TfWO1w9s
— JJ (@JjTyun) March 15, 2025
This headline makes it sound like they were just hanging out in some swanky Jetsons space hotel https://t.co/tiw123LUyb
— Vanessa (@Nessakins_) March 15, 2025
Unbelievable.
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..mainstream media being mainstream..
Trump makes it sound as if bidette abandoned them.the truth is muskrat rockets are disasters.
Says the loser
Disasters? I guess you don’t read current affairs then. Musk’s ‘disastrous’ rockets are scheduled to put man on Mars in the next few years. NASA can’t even put them on the moon anymore. You’re clearly suffering from Musk Derangement Syndrome in addition to your Trump Derangement Syndrome.