The Dragon spacecraft was successfully launched and will pick up the astronauts who were stranded for 9 months

Text: Crocodile entertainment begonia

Edited by Ming Qiao

preface

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Presumably, everyone should also know that the United States has been on the first manned test mission since Wilmore and Williams flew on a Boeing "Starliner" on June 5 last year.

The two of them were originally planned to spend eight days in space, but their return was repeatedly delayed due to various reasons such as thruster failure and helium leakage.

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At present, they have been trapped on the International Space Station for more than nine months, and during these nine months, the United States has also used various methods to carry out rescue plans against them, but they have failed again and again.

Finally yesterday, the United States came out with good news, on the evening of March 14, US time, the "Falcon 9" rocket of the US Space Exploration Technology Corporation was launched at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and this time the "Dragon" spacecraft will also send four astronauts to the International Space Station.

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The four astronauts are from the United States, Russia, and Japan, and it is noteworthy that after the "Dragon" spacecraft sends these four astronauts to the International Space Station, they will also stay in space for a few days, and then they will pick up two astronauts who have been in the International Space Station for more than nine months.

According to a report by the news network, the "Dragon" spacecraft is expected to return to Earth no earlier than March 19 local time.

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For the two astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station, this is tantamount to great news, after all, the United States has brought them hope too many times, but in the end, they have been disappointed again and again, and their plans to return to Earth have been repeatedly postponed.

In recent years, Boeing has had frequent problems, and it is simply unable to successfully bring back two astronauts from space in a short period of time.

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In fact, as early as last year, some experts predicted that the United States would still turn to the "Dragon" spacecraft to bring the two astronauts back, after all, the current Boeing company is already much worse than before, and it is full of failures, and they have no confidence in believing in Boeing's technology at all.

What's more, the detention of these two astronauts has attracted the attention of the whole world, and if there is no way to get them back, then the slogan of the United States as the "world's first power" will become a joke.

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You must know that when the space mission was carried out, the original plan given by the United States was originally 8 days, so when selecting astronauts, the requirements for physical fitness and age were also appropriately relaxed.

And now they have been stranded in space for more than 9 months, and they have already had serious physical problems, especially the female astronaut Williams, we can see that aging is visible to the naked eye.

Even in the footage sent back from the International Space Station some time ago, we can clearly see that she is even very, very thin, and her chin is even more pointy and scary, just like the witch in a fairy tale.

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Although they have repeatedly told the media that they absolutely believe that the US government has not abandoned them and will do everything possible to successfully bring them back, we also believe that during the more than nine months they have been stranded in space, I am afraid that life will not be as satisfactory as they say.

In any case, now that they have finally waited for the news of the rescue, at least compared to the unreliable Boeing, it was the "Dragon" spacecraft that rescued them this time, and at least the chances of survival will be much greater.

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It is estimated that they themselves did not expect that it was a relaxed and happy "space business trip", and the time was only 8 days, who would have thought that they would stay for such a long time at once, and it is ridiculous that Williams also broke the record for the length of a female astronaut's spacewalk.

Many netizens are also speculating that if they knew that Boeing was so unreliable and that they might never come back, they didn't know if they were willing to take such a risk to complete the space journey.

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However, this incident also happened to reflect the serious problems within Boeing today, after all, only in the last year, Boeing's orders have continued to decline, and aircraft accidents are frequent, and even many passengers now bypass Boeing's aircraft when choosing flights.

In particular, this year's South Korean plane crash has shocked the whole world, and even many Boeing internal employees have responded that there are serious problems with the quality of the Boeing planes manufactured today, and they have long had a shadow of Boeing planes, and they are even unwilling to take their own planes.

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It is conceivable that Boeing has become rotten like this in aircraft manufacturing, so naturally it is not capable of picking up astronauts back.

If there is no "Dragon" spacecraft to help them take the astronauts back, I am afraid that the United States will really give up on taking these two astronauts back, after all, looking at the present, in addition to the "Dragon" spacecraft, I am afraid that only our Chinese spacecraft can complete this difficult task.

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However, it is not so easy for the United States to ask our country for help, and for the time being, regardless of whether our country is willing to help, we have no reason to help them just because of the "Wolf Clause" proposed by the United States back then.

You must know that when our country's space technology was very backward, the United States had already implemented the "Wolf Clause" against us, not only would not provide us with any technical assistance, but even instigated other countries to sanction the mainland's space technology.

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Fortunately, our scientific researchers are not afraid of hardships, after decades of struggle, finally our space technology to catch up with the first echelon of the world, since the International Space Station does not allow us to settle in, then we will build our own space station, today's Tiangong space station is constantly improving, the mainland astronauts have long been working on it.

Not only are the facilities far larger than those of the International Space Station, but even flowers and animals can be planted in it, and we have proved with our own practical actions that China is developing at an unstoppable speed.

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epilogue

Finally, I hope that these two astronauts can successfully return to Earth, after all, they must not want to die in space after staying in space for such a long time.

Source: Xiaoxiang Morning News 2025-3-15 The "Dragon" spacecraft, which is scheduled to bring back the stranded US astronauts, will be launched and is expected to return to Earth no earlier than March 19