Boats Flying Trump Flags Endangered SpaceX Recovery

August 3, 2020 Idiocracy, Trump cultists

Business Insider reports:



The capsule bobbed in the ocean for about 15 minutes as professional recovery boats sped to retrieve the astronauts — but they weren’t alone on the water. The landing site off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, drew a crowd of onlookers in their own boats. Some got close to the spaceship, including a boat flying a Trump flag that sped into view of NASA’s live feed.

“Maybe next time we shouldn’t announce our landing zone,” the SpaceX engineer Kate Tice said during NASA’s live feed of the landing. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said in a briefing shortly after the splashdown that the crowd of boats “was not what we were anticipating.”

The US Coast Guard had cleared the area ahead of the landing, Bridenstine said, but after the capsule splashed down, “the boats just made a beeline for it,” he said. “We need to do a better job next time for sure.”

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