back to article 'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk

NASA 'naut Sunita Williams has broken Peggy Whitson's record for total spacewalking time for a female astronaut with a trip outside the International Space Station (ISS) to collect samples from the outpost's exterior. Sunita Williams performing a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (pic: NASA+) Sunita Williams …

  1. Irongut Silver badge

    These poor astronauts forced to WALK home from @SpaceStation after the failure of ELON to bring them home.

    Why is the Dragon not ready? Is Merlin still asleep? We must chant the charm of making...

    Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha

    1. Boris the Cockroach Silver badge
      Unhappy

      Thanks ..... you just turned the missus into a newt

      1. The Oncoming Scorn Silver badge
        Coat

        Did she get better?

        1. BartyFartsLast Silver badge

          It's a fair cop

      2. spold Silver badge

        Was it an improvement?

      3. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

        "Thanks ..... you just turned the missus into a newt"

        A cockroach and a newt walk into a bar... :-)

        1. Hurn

          "A newt?"

          "[She] got better."

    2. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

      It's getting so crowded up there they have to take it in turns to go and stand outside. All Biden's fault. Something woke. Did anybody see my hamburger? I can't have eaten it already, can I?

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Biden's fault?

        It must all be the fault of Biden. There must be a DEI hire somewhere to blame. Can we blame the victims?

        1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

          Re: Biden's fault?

          Accompanied by fellow astronaut "Butch" Wilmore

          That's why we can't have female astronauts, they don't have proper astronaut names.

        2. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

          Re: Biden's fault?

          "There must be a DEI hire somewhere to blame. Can we blame the victims?"

          Well, there seems to be a strong correlation by Trump and his Press Secretary/spokeswomen between "DEI hires" and "not white", so it must all be Sunnis fault. :-(

      2. beast666 Silver badge

        You sound like a broken record.

        Try fixing yourself.

    3. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      WALK home

      Lucky they are not on the moon! Or in Elon's Mars colony! [1]

      [1] Maybe that will be one-way tickets only.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: WALK home

        Elon's Mars colony

        Guantanamars

  2. Flocke Kroes Silver badge

    Since inauguration the XKCD has taken on an extra meaning.

    1. BartyFartsLast Silver badge

      There is always an appropriate XKCD and that one is perfect

  3. Philo T Farnsworth Silver badge

    Poor Sunni. . .

    Extra space walks, now commander of the ISS.

    I'll bet she's totally bummed she didn't have to come back in just eight days.

    They'll probably have to drag her into the SpaceX ship to take her back to Earth.

    1. Gene Cash Silver badge

      Re: Poor Sunni. . .

      > They'll probably have to drag her into the SpaceX ship to take her back to Earth.

      They would certainly need the entire crew to drag me back... all the while shouting "I don't wanna go back to that shithole!!"

    2. CowHorseFrog Silver badge

      Re: Poor Sunni. . .

      Good too see modern america at work, giving people meaningless titles and costing billions ... which achieves what exactly ?

      No more than a person shitting on a toilet back home.

  4. rcxb Silver badge

    With lyrics...

    Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,

    A tale of a fateful trip

    That started from this space port

    Aboard Boeing's space ship.

    The pilot was a mighty rocket man,

    The commander brave and sure.

    Three astronauts blasted off that day

    For a seven day tour, a seven day tour.

    1. Andy 68

      Re: With lyrics...

      Sweetest sight ever seen

  5. ovation1357

    Astros?

    Since when has the word astronaut been abbreviated to 'astro'? I hate to be the language snob here but it this really grates with me. Am I alone?

    Otherwise a very interesting story though :-D

    1. that one in the corner Silver badge

      Re: Astros?

      The famous Mars Brothers, Cosmo, Astro and Taiko[1]. Fondly remembered for their work on the ISS in "Flywheel, Thruster and Flywheel"[2] and the famous IMAX film "A Night in the Orbit".[3]

      [1] plus the boring one whose name nobody ever remembers - and the other one, remembered only by real fans, who never made it to a successful mission.

      [2] although only Cosmo and Astro had major roles in this.

      [3] a later film, to be called "Go West", was cancelled due to technical difficulties when it was pointed out they'd have to reverse course.

    2. Bebu sa Ware
      Windows

      Re: Astros?

      Since when has the word astronaut been abbreviated to 'astro'?

      I guess it's also now cosmos, taikos, vyomas and spatios?

      Ijon Tichy would not be amused, I am sure.

      As for "since when" I would suggest since a large number of "qualified" adults voted for a chap that no one could seriously trust even to open a packet of crisps.

      If I were one of the pair on the ISS I might well be pondering the fate of cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev.

    3. Hurn

      Re: Astros?

      Surely " 'naut" (or possibly "*naut") would be better?

  6. imanidiot Silver badge

    Can we just STOP with the "Abandoned" already?

    Even if it's in quotes, it just keeps getting repeated by media so often as if it's serious that it is getting very very very annoying. Those astronauts are not abandoned or 'abandoned'. NASA made the operational decision based on available capacity to extend the crews stay on the ISS. If they really had to they could have brought them down on Crew 8 easily enough. If it was really neccesary, there could have been another dragon capsule to get them back long before now. Both of them knew there was a possibility they might have to stay longer if Starliner had issues (again). Both of them knew there was a high probability of that happening. This is a (admittedly bit of an extreme) case of a support engineering having to stay longer at a customer site to solve a problem.

    1. Marty McFly Silver badge
      Meh

      Re: Can we just STOP with the "Abandoned" already?

      Meh. It gives all the Boeing haters another chance to dog pile.

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