Astronaut Onishi blasts off on mission as 3rd Japanese to lead ISS

Takuya Onishi and three fellow crew members embarked Friday on a mission to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket launched from Florida.

Good luck Onishi san and congratulations on a successful and safe rocket launch Space X.

Congratulations to Onishi-san! A pretty amazing achievement!

Thank you President Trump for a job well done and promises kept.

SpaceX and Elon Musk deliver again! But only about 9 months later than planned,

Go Go go Elon, mmh Just a minor representation of T stock holders, When does he send his clone ROB to mars, please, Delay no more! Dare mighty things!

musk lied when he said he approached the previous administration about returning the astronauts. trump has nothing to do with this mission schedule, it was already in the works.

the relentless drumbeat of lies and misinformation is destroying humanity. just stop it.

Very cool and for young kids he is inspirational.

We pray for the astronauts a safe trip to the International Space Station, and for a safe return to Earth.

musk lied when he said he approached the previous administration about returning the astronauts. trump has nothing to do with this mission schedule, it was already in the works.

Hmmm....bottom line, Biden didn't do anything and the Astronauts themselves believe that Biden wasn't making their return a priority and felt it was political and I think they have more insight to the information than any of us, so I believe them.

the relentless drumbeat of lies and misinformation is destroying humanity. just stop it.

Hardly.

https://x.com/tomosman/status/1897632749290147855

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1892584783064052114

Anyway, he is, his rocket and they are on their way, so kudos to him. He deserves ever praise.

He deserves ever praise.

This is the problem. In your eyes your heroes can do no wrong. When they irrefutably do wrong you just pretend it didn’t happen, is fake news or a conspiracy.

the Astronauts themselves believe that Biden wasn't making their return a priority and felt it was political and I think they have more insight to the information than any of us, so I believe them.

No no no.

“Although Wilmore said he trusts Musk, he added that he and Williams knew nothing about the behind-closed-doors discussion regarding their rescue.

“We have no information on that, though, whatsoever. What was offered, what was not offered, who it was offered to, how that process went. That’s information that we simply don’t have,”

There’s your ‘insight’.

This is the problem. In your eyes your heroes can do no wrong.

Again, this is the problem, he is the only one getting these people down.

When they irrefutably do wrong you just pretend it didn’t happen, is fake news or a conspiracy.

I wish you paid the same attention to the left when they do something which is daily

No no no.

Yes

“Although Wilmore said he trusts Musk, he added that he and Williams knew nothing about the behind-closed-doors discussion regarding their rescue.

“We have no information on that, though, whatsoever. What was offered, what was not offered, who it was offered to, how that process went. That’s information that we simply don’t have,” 

But he added that there was NO doubt in his mind (and I believe him because he knows more than both of us that) that Biden was making a political decision by keeping them up there.

There’s your ‘insight’.

Exactly

Congratulations Japan.

nasa has documented and confirmed there was no politics in the decisions on the timing of returning them. none.

missions have gone to the iss since and a spacex vehicle is docked there now. the astronauts have not said anything about being stranded or under stress.

the crew of the spacex vehicle there now is completing their mission and the schedule to bring them back about 10 days from now has been set since last year.

grandstanding by musk and trump, and the never ending drumbeat of misinformation by maga is disgraceful.

Nasa said last year it'd be late March before they're back on Earth. Here we are with them returning late March. Trump and President Elon's misinformation is pathetic. Glad these real American heros, can finally put their feet back on the ground.

bass4funkToday 12:58 am JST

musk lied when he said he approached the previous administration about returning the astronauts. trump has nothing to do with this mission schedule, it was already in the works.

Hmmm....bottom line, Biden didn't do anything and the Astronauts themselves believe that Biden wasn't making their return a priority and felt it was political and I think they have more insight to the information than any of us, so I believe them.

The date of their return was almost set exactly under Biden. Since you believe everything is due to Trump, is the stock market being down 10% also due to him?

The date of their return was almost set exactly under Biden.

You don’t need to try in vain to convince me, tell that to the 2 Astronauts sitting 8 months in space.

Since you believe everything is due to Trump, is the stock market being down 10% also due to him?

Focus, the stock market has nothing to do with the Astronauts lingering in space or what they personally suspect.

the 2 astronauts in space don’t have a problem and have said so in interviews from the iss.

you’d think they were being tossed around in a dinghy in the middle of the ocean. trump and musk will make it a big deal and call it a “rescue,” which it isn't.

But he added that there was NO doubt in his mind (and I believe him because he knows more than both of us that) that Biden was making a political decision by keeping them up there.

Nope. Read again what he said, what NASA said. What you believe is irrelevant.

Congrats to Onishi! Let's hope the mission goes well, so the two 'stranded' US astronauts can finally return home, after a 9month delay. SpaceX and Elon save the day!

musk just grabs the limelight at spacex.

gwyinne shotwell runs spacex, a business development person with a mechanical engineering degree and masters in applied mathematics who steered government funding into spacex.

musk just grabs the limelight at spacex.

And who gets credit, the boss of course.

The duo made the remarks in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday when asked about claims from President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that the astronauts were left high and dry by the prior administration.

“That’s been the rhetoric. That’s been the narrative from day one: stranded, abandoned, stuck — and I get it. We both get it,” Wilmore said. “But that is, again, not what our human spaceflight program is about. We don’t feel abandoned, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded.”

just stop the lies.