It’s not a rescue mission. It was an already scheduled mission which is why it’s 6 months long. Two of the originally scheduled crew got their seats bumped so the boeing capsule test asteonauts would have seats for a normal return. Wilmore and Wiliams could have returned in the other spacex capsule that was already up there in case of emergency. They were never stranded.
A few weeks earlier:
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“Looks like they’re stranded”
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“They’re not stranded, they can return any time they want!”
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“We don’t want to ride on a Boeing. We’ll take the next ride.”
“It’s the space x.”
“You mean the space NEXT? Isn’t there the Dream Chaser? We like that one.”
Fuck it - just send up some fucking parachutes… we’ll do it the safer way.
The red bull way
The word launch is very overloaded here.