Could White Supremacy Have Kept Two Astronauts From Being Marooned in Space for Eight Months? – RedState

In a Saturday announcement calculated to fly below the media radar and the attention of the public, NASA announced that astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore would have their eight-day stay aboard the International Space Station extended to eight months. When they do return, it will be aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon rather than the Boeing Starliner “autonomous” capsule that had been their way home.

“It was just too much risk for the crew,” said Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager.

The highly anticipated decision, one of the most consequential by the space agency in years, is a devastating blow to Boeing, which had argued vehemently that Starliner was safe even though it suffered a series of thruster problems and helium leaks as it brought NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore to the International Space Station in…