When drama strucks in orbit, people know who they can count on – Elon Musk.
Musk for the rescue, again?
Space is the one realm where the Earthly conflicts become meaningless, and everyone is just filled with fraternal love for the heroes braving the ‘final frontier’.
Here on TGP, we are following the saga of the three Chinese astronauts – or rather, Taikonauts – who are temporarily stranded in space aboard the Tiangong space station.
And, whatever out personal opinions about Communist China, we are all rooting for their safe return.
And what’s more: a global plea is growing, calling for Elon Musk to rescue three astronauts after their return capsule was struck by an ‘unknown object’ – probably space debris.
Daily Mail reported:
“Senior Colonel Chen Dong and crew members Colonel Chen Zhongrui and Colonel Wang Jie launched to China’s Tiangong space station in April and were set to return home on November 5. But officials revealed this week that their spacecraft may have sustained damage while docked in orbit for the past six months.
Chinese officials are unsure what struck the vessel, but the damage is believed to have been caused by space debris, which is basically junk floating around the Earth from older space missions and rocket launches.”
Tiangong Space Station.
The Chinese incident has made people remember NASA’s Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) last year after the Boeing Starliner capsule malfunctioned.
“Musk’s SpaceX was credited with carrying out the rescue, and many online now believe the billionaire’s rocket company may once again be humanity’s best hope.
‘Send Elon,’ one user posted on X. Another wrote, ‘When you’re stuck in space, who you gonna call? Elon Musk and SpaceX’.”
However, Musk’s own AI bot Grok has explained how this is probably not going to happen:
“SpaceX lacks the capability to dock with Tiangong due to incompatible ports and international restrictions, making a direct rescue impractical. The astronauts’ return is delayed for safety inspections by the newly arrived Shenzhou-21 crew, but they’re not indefinitely stranded—China’s program has redundancies. Elon focuses on Mars, but perhaps Starship’s future iterations could enable cross-compatible ops someday.”
Read more:
LOST IN ORBIT: Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Tiangong Space Station After Debris Strikes Their Return Capsule
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