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Folks, America is in the middle of a great comeback, but the culture war is not over, which is why tomorrow we're releasing episode two of our five part series, The Case for Derek Chauvin, The Incident. In episode one, we analyze the criminal background of George Floyd and the professional record of Derek Chauvin.
But tomorrow we're going moment by moment through the infamous videos of that fateful day. If you want to be a part of the movement fighting for truth and reason, it's time to become a Daily Wire Plus member. So, a very cool piece of news. Yesterday, after nine months on the International Space Station, 286 days in space, according to the Washington Post.
The NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Butch Wilmore splashed down in their SpaceX Dragon capsule off the coast of Florida just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday. So originally, that flight on the Boeing Starliner was supposed to last eight days, and they ended up up there for 286 days. Which has to suck, to be honest with you.
Imagine that you're going to space and you tell your family that you're going to see them in a little over a week. And almost a year later, you're still up there. Now, depending on your family situation, maybe that's an unpaid vacation. But whatever it is, it's not great. And the failures of the Biden administration to work with Elon to actually get those people down is pretty astonishing.
It really is. Because we are now... a couple months into the Trump administration, and Musk is sending SpaceX, the much maligned Elon Musk is sending SpaceX to, you know, rescue astronauts where they are stranded in space, which also probably is the beginning of an amazing rom-com that'll come out in a year or two.
The astronauts have said that they were actually prepared to stay longer, and they were eager to pitch in by conducting science experiments and maintenance aboard the orbiting laboratory. I'm sure they were. I mean, it probably gets pretty boring up there for a year. I hope that they at least liked each other.
NASA officials said the decision about when and how to get them home was made based on safety and keeping the space station occupied, not politics. They were joined on their return trip by the NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov. So that is a very cool thing.
Apparently, the reentry process is pretty rough because if you spend a lot of time in space, then that creates changes in your body. So it's not going to be there's a ticker ticker tape parade tomorrow or anything. So whenever I don't know something about a topic, the first place I go is to my friends over at Perplexity. This search, by the way, is sponsored by Perplexity.
I wanted to know what actual physical effects would a year long stint in space have on astronauts. And here is what my friend. Perplexity told me, quote, a year-long stint in space would have significant physical effects on astronauts due to the microgravity environment and other factors associated with space travel. Those effects include musculoskeletal changes like bone density loss.
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