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1. Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 03:12:09 JST Anime Wong
   Not to sound like a fag, but this story is not accurate. The two astronauts left by Boeing on the ISS did not return on the Soyuz (their names are Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams). They are still up there
   
   The US is still paying the Russians to launch American astronauts to the ISS. This was part of a standard crew rotation.
   
   The more funny thing is that NASA still doesn't have a reliable way to launch its own people into space (that's what they really wanted Boeing for, and they screwed up spectacularly), which is why they are still paying the Russians for launches. They could go all in on SpaceX, but the federal government is butthurt over Elon and is trying to ruin him (For example, the FAA keeps stalling on their applications to perform launches so that they miss launch windows, costing them money or forcing them to ignore the FAA and then lose money via criminal fees).
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/ef0e2db7-d4ac-497e-ab80-44ee899e9320