Stranded astronauts are hostages to Kamala Harris’ political ambition

Rotten luck for astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams: Not lone person a bid of mediocre decisions by NASA and Boeing enactment got them stuck successful space, but present they’re being held hostage by Kamala Harris’ governmental ambitions.

That’s right: The vice president chairs the National Space Council, which is expected to springiness NASA its absorption — which means she already shares blasted for this mess, and is champion served by conscionable letting the “castaways” rot until aft Election Day.

Wilmore and Williams were expected to beryllium successful abstraction lone for 8 days aft their motorboat from Earth connected June 5, but their Boeing-built spacecraft, the Starliner, malfunctioned — leaving them trapped connected the International Space Station.

NASA and Boeing have hemmed and hawed for 2 months astir however to bring the astronauts home, floating the thought of them traveling backmost with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon next February, portion insisting the Starliner could get the explorers location if perfectly necessary.

One happening is clear.

Even if NASA comes up with immoderate different answer, those astronauts won’t travel location earlier November.

Because Harris chairs the National Space Council: The subordinate stops with her, but she has an predetermination to win.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore connected launched into abstraction connected June 5. AFP via Getty Images

She surely fears the atrocious property of a abstraction disaster.

Sticking Williams and Wilmore backmost connected the glitched Starliner would beryllium excessively overmuch of a hazard to her statesmanlike prospects.

And past idiosyncratic mightiness announcement conscionable however dormant astatine the instrumentality she’s been arsenic caput of NSC.

Harris has lone chaired 3 nationalist Space Council meetings, the latest past December, wherever she “spoke astatine the commencement of that gathering but near instantly thereafter, leaving an advisor to seat the meeting,” according to SpaceNews.

Her predecessor, Vice President Mike Pence, chaired 8 NSC meetings successful the 4 Trump years.

And her input was irrelevant to issues similar gathering a functional, reliable abstraction program. For example: At that Dec. 20, 2023, she announced 3 priorities for space, starting with “tackling the clime crisis.”

Huh?

Just arsenic with her “work” arsenic borderline czar, Kamala’s been phoning it successful arsenic Space Council chief.

Is determination anything she touches that doesn’t crook into a crisis?

Whenever Harris talks astir what she’ll bash “on Day One” arsenic president, retrieve her pathetic grounds arsenic vice president.

Whether it’s millions of amerciable migrants dispersed crossed the federation oregon 2 astronauts stranded successful space, her results beryllium she doesn’t merit a promotion; she needs to beryllium fired.