Tim Dodd

That's as opposed to six.

Could you imagine?

That's actually not a big deal for us.

Just we'll see in eight months.

Just stranded in space.

Well, it was supposed like a six month would be a normal.

Actually, I mean, their thing was supposed to only be about two weeks.

So eight and a half months is a lot.

But these astronauts had already flown to space, had been to the ISS, and a normal crew rotation is six months.

So that's like not that unheard of.

In fact, like Scott Kelly spent almost a year on the ISS.

So these aren't like, it's not that unheard of.

And just as a matter of like scheduling and stuff, it makes sense just to keep it on the same rotation.

So you don't screw up the whole entire International Space Station's crew rotation schedule just because you want to get them.

Just really inconvenient for those guys.

Yeah, but they're professional astronauts.

That's where they want to be.

Oh, I thought they were... I thought it was a... They're still NASA astronauts.

Okay, I didn't realize they were actually NASA astronauts.

I thought they were just like tourists.