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So...how do we get them their absentee ballots?

For those of you just joining us, astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams left our Earth on June 5, 2024 for a three hour tour an eight day test mission to the International Space Station.

If they were testing the incompetence of Boeing, their mission was an absolutely stunning success because Barry and Sunita have been stuck in space for two months now.

And they probably aren't coming back until next year.

NASA's space shuttle program ended in 2011 when the space shuttle Atlantis completed it's final mission July 21, 2011.

NASA's space shuttle program started in April of 1981. The fleet flew 135 missions.

The program began with the Columbia, followed by the Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor.

Two orbiters, Columbia and Challenger, were destroyed with their crews in-flight. The Challenger accident is likely the more famous accident. Televised around the country, the flight carried schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe amongst the crew as part of the Teacher in Space program.

After 2011, NASA astronauts didn't launch from American soil until 2020. They were aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule.

In the mean time, we were hitching rides from Russian Soyuz capsules out of Kazakstan.

Seriously? We were hitchhiking into space with the Russians? I don't believe those conspiracy theories about the moonlanding fakery, but damn, NASA. When you can't get people into space without strapping them into a Russian capsule, it adds to the argument that maybe we didn't. Come on. What are we even doing?

Now, we have two astronauts stuck in space waiting for a Boeing fix.

Do I need to go over all of Boeing's issues of late? I'm not going to. You can check them out from this episode when we covered the suspicious suicide of the Boeing whistleblower John Barnett.

I guess it's all up to Elon now.

Ugh. I'm just...I can't...I'm not...

Ugh.

We used to be a serious people. We used to be a serious country.

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Kate works in production at LwC. She is an author. When she isn’t writing...who are we kidding? She’s always writing. You can find her here on X.