03-12-25 YMS Two American astronauts who have been on an extended mission on the International Space Station will be on their way home soon. A replacement crew is scheduled to be launched Wednesday night. Why did a mission of only a few days turn into nine months? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL is in Florida and joins us with the latest on the scheduled launch of Elon Musk’s “SpaceX 10” crew.

Two American astronauts who have been on an extended mission on the International Space Station will be on their way home soon. A replacement crew is scheduled to be launched Wednesday night. Why did a mission of only a few days turn into nine months? National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL is in Florida and joins us with the latest on the scheduled launch of Elon Musk’s “SpaceX 10” crew.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Previously on your Morning show with Michael dil Choo.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Roy O'Neil is here on when they'll come home and
why this mission turned into nine months.

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Good morning, Rory, hey there, good morning.

Speaker 4 (00:11):
Right, So, these astronauts launched last spring to test fly
the Boeing star Liner capsule and it didn't go well.
So after months of being docked at the space station
with NASA trying to figure out, geek, is it safe
to land this thing? They ultimately decided to bring Starliner
home empty and leave these two astronauts on the space
station to come home with the regular crew rotation.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, a new crew was about to.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Launch tonight, and that means that Butch and Sunny could
be home in a matter of days.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
All right, now you follow this, What are the odds
that thing takes off tonight?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Pretty good? Pretty good?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
You know, they're pretty good at these Falcon nine rocket
launches actually were perhaps launching three week SpaceX launching three
rockets within a twelve hour period. We had one last night,
I guess it'd be twenty four hours one last night
in California, and we've got two on different launch pads
here in Cape Canaveral.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Right, now, all right, two questions, and they're really simple ones.
Who's going to be on that rock?

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Who's who's gonna be on that rocket and make the
risk of having to be there nine months or they
just take Butcher and Sonny and go right back home.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
So the rocket launching to night has four people on
it who will start a six month tour on the
Space station, just like the crews that went up in September.
They launched for a six month mission with two empty
seats on their on their crew, so that way they
could bring home Butch and Sonny. Essentially, Butcher and Sonny
are hitching a ride on the capsule that was set
up in September that is coming home with the crew

(01:43):
that is wrapping up their six month tour. So they're
just they're just catching a ride on this one they launched. Yeah,
that's coming home. Nine ten is launching. They're coming home
on nine. They're coming home My night, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
And then we had a fascinating conversation in the first
hour about the happiest places to live. And I just
mention in my skepticism because I live in the Nashville
metro area, where like you in Florida, and those listening
in Texas. Most of America is moving to to the
point where we can't get around on the roads.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
And yet according to wallet Hub.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
I mean, how many of the happy the top ten
happiest cities where the San Francisco let alone California almost
seven of them, wasn't it.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, Fremont, San Jose or Irvine, Yeah, yeah, Huntington Beach
and San Francisco yep.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
And Nashville apparently was one hundred and eighteenth behind Chicago.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
That was ninety Chicago. And then who is deadas Cleveland? Right?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Better food and better food, yes, Cleveland. Not sure I'm
buying any of that. But the happiest place on earth
is or in America anyway, Fremont, California.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
And then I looked up the pictures and it looked
just like that.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
You know, of all the places in a motion picture,
there's two movies, and they're both disaster movies that I
would live in. One is that wherever they filmed Dante's Peak.
Now I think they put them they animated in the mountain,
so that little town there really isn't a volcano right there, obviously,
but it still is like a quaint town. And then

(03:17):
the town that they almost blow up in outbreak to
kill the virus.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
And that's what Freemont looks like. Freemont looks nice. I
have no reference to any of the things you just mentioned.
You've never seen those movies.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
No, it's like a quaint town where you could film
a disaster. But you know, the question of the hour is,
if it's so great, why is everybody fleeing that state?
But it's the criteria that maybe that's why it's great,
because now they got a lot more elbow room. I know,
maybe we should just turn abouts fair play. We'll go
there now and invade their quaint town. Roy O'Neill has

(03:54):
always great reporting. We'll talk again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Miss a little, miss a lot, miss a lot, and
we'll miss you. It's your Voding show with Michael Delcerno.