God, if you exist, deliver them back to us safely. Amen.
Or something like that.
I hope for the safe return of the astronauts and the end to the politicization of space.
NASA needs to let its engineers run the show- not politics.
With all the problems they've had, the astronauts showed us why they still have the right stuff: Commander Eileen Collins said astronauts on shuttle Discovery had seen widespread environmental destruction on Earth and warned on Thursday that greater care was needed to protect natural resources. That's what they talked about, even as their own return was in jeopardy.
see the article on CNN
"We would like to see, from the astronauts' point of view, people take good care of the Earth and replace the resources that have been used," said Collins...
and
"The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin," she said. "We know that we don't have much air, we need to protect what we have."
What great people.
And what an idiot of a president.
My heart goes out to them.