12 August 2024 - astronaut rescue

< yesterday -- tomorrow >

journalist: How do you feel about the long delay before NASA can rescue you from the space station?
astronaut: Rescue? Is orbit a place I need to be rescued from?
journalist: You're stuck there and can't get free. Don't you want to go home?
astronaut: Look, if the ISS is a briar patch, then I'm Br'er Rabbit.

clue:

Journalists, or at least their editors, seem unable to resist dramatization. Astronauts get to spend more time in space than planned? They must be SO worried!

take oh take this clue away

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