Can you imagine being so bad at your job that you send some people to the ISS for an 8 day mission but your hardware is so fucking broken that they refuse to take it back to earth and now your 8 day mission is damn near a year long? Archive: https://archive.today/aazw4 From the post: >>NASA is bringing forward its rescue mission for its two stranded astronauts amid mounting political pressure. Insiders say the space agency will bring Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore home around March 19 — about two weeks earlier than the original early April return. By that date, they will have spent 286 days in space. Williams and Willmore have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024, bringing them close to eight months on the orbiting laboratory when they were originally scheduled for an eight-day stay.