# Starliner Astronauts, Butch & Sunny **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787 "2024-07-25T17:44:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/1 "2024-07-25T17:44:39Z")
Butch and Sunny. Stranded in space. If they finally get them out, I’m gonna be so disappointed if they don’t holler “Ooohhhh Shit!!!” when they finally undock from the Space station. Alá Butch and Sundance. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/2 "2024-07-25T23:55:48Z")
Wait, you didn’t see Joe Lefors out there, did you? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/3 "2024-07-26T00:45:36Z")
What’s that song by Johnny Cash about a horse rocketing into space? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/4 "2024-07-26T05:11:35Z")
Ghost Riders in Space ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/5 "2024-07-26T06:40:03Z")
Hey, Mother Earth Won’t ya bring me back down Safely to the sea? But 'round and around and around and around Is all she ever say to me ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/6 "2024-07-26T18:37:44Z")
From what I understand, they want to study the thrusters mounted on the service module, which is jettisoned before the capsule re enters the atmosphere and is destroyed. NASA takes a long time to do things. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/7 "2024-07-27T16:55:47Z")
When being interviewed they are all confidence and smiles. I wonder what they are really thinking. Remember all of the problems they had prior to liftoff? Makes you wonder. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/8 "2024-07-27T17:00:01Z")
Talk about cancelled flights. Makes the big Delta debacle sound like nothing at all. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/9 "2024-07-28T15:38:16Z")
I expect Butch and Sonny are happy about the situation: **if you are an astronaut what you really want to do is to be in space!** –so the longer the better [and there are backup plans for returning to earth on the Crew Dragon if the issues with the Starliner are not fixed so they don’t need to worry about dying out there]. ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/10 "2024-07-28T15:59:05Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Butch and Sunny > [@PastTense](#): > > Sonny Suni ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starliner-astronauts-butch-sunny/1004787/11 "2024-07-28T17:18:54Z")
_Suni_. Is cool. I just heard the name said by some news anchor. Don’t read it.