Tim Dodd
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They went to the International Space Station.
Since then they've flown, I think we're on crew 13, right?
Or crew 12.
So they've flown almost 20 crew because there's also been private missions now that have flown on Dragon and with SpaceX.
Meanwhile, Boeing has only flown two people to the International Space Station.
and famously got stuck up there, and the crew did not return from the International Space Station on that Boeing spacecraft.
Oh yes.
That was a commercial one.
That was a commercial launch.
Oh my God.
I didn't even realize that.
How long were they up there for?
Elon rescued them, right?
Well, in a sense, Elon rescued them.
And the fact that they basically, the next SpaceX one that was on schedule, they left two seats open.
Ah, okay.
So yeah, Elon did argue that like, we can send it anytime.
I mean, SpaceX, they're like a well-oiled machine.
But they didn't, they realized like the trade was, hey, we can have these guys up there for eight and a half months.
No big deal.