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applegrove

(125,410 posts)
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 04:43 PM Monday

Am I the only one who noticed the astronauts

names Butch and Sunny sound like the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

Useless info, i know.

"SNIP.........

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore garnered worldwide attention when issues with their Boeing Starliner vehicle cropped up during a June test flight to the International Space Station. As they waited for an alternative ride home, the pair faced a stream of rhetoric, bolstered by politicians and media, about being “abandoned,” “stranded,” or “stuck” — descriptors the astronauts themselves have denied.

.........SNIP"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/science/nasa-boeing-starliner-williams-wilmore-q-and-a/index.html

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