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Last Friday I saw something on television I’d seen many times before, but with a major twist. A giant sleek white rocket ship blasted off toward space bearing a crew of four. Only instead of something out of the science-fiction flicks I’ve loved since I was a kid, this was a real-life rescue mission.

The stakes were the fate of two marooned astronauts and one man’s ability to rescue them. Both of which would be irresistible movie fodder except for one thing. The man is Elon Musk — whom I call the Man From Planet X after an old ‘B’ sci-fi favorite plus his corporate brand. He’s a man despised by the international Left, the entire Democratic party, and their willing vassal state — Hollywoke.

They all mocked Musk two weeks ago when a SpaceX test rocket exploded. In a vile display of ignorance soiled with abhorrence, an MSNBC panel celebrated the perceived failure. The anchorette smilingly announced the explosion, whereupon Symone Sanders (whoever she is) sang out with glee. Then a smarmy Michael Steele — who in the wretched pre-Trump Republican Party was actually RNC Chairman — had some words of anti-wisdom for Musk.

“His response was rockets are hard,” preached Steele. “And, Mr. Musk, if they’re so hard, why don’t you go back to your day job, and work that out? And leave those of us who do government to do government. ‘Cause you can’t do both, and clearly you’re failing right now at both.” Do government, Mr. Steele? You morons can’t even do television, judging by MSNBC’s abysmal ratings.

It didn’t occur to this sad lot that the explosion wasn’t a failure. That the purpose of a test flight is to demonstrate the flaws in a spacecraft so they can be corrected to avoid loss of life like the Challenger space shuttle tragedy. That they weren’t cheering a setback for Musk but for the country he’s uplifting more than they ever will. No doubt they’ll be cheering for a catastrophe in the rescue attempt rather than see Musk be hailed as a hero, and by extension Donald Trump.

I continued to watch the rocket ship — enjoyably named Falcon 9 — ascend, propelled by 1.7-million pounds of thrust, its crew of two American women (Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers) and two men, a Japanese (Takuya Onishi) and a Russian (Kirill Peskov) — enduring two Gs (gravitational force). At more than 1,400 miles per hour, it soon reached Max Q (Maximum Dynamic Pressure). The second-stage engines ignited, flinging the spacecraft into the atmosphere at 6,500 mph while the first stage fell to Earth. Then, I saw something I never had before, not in Flash Gordon, Star Wars, or the more recent The Martian.

The booster didn’t splash down in the ocean like the pre-Space X models did. Or get captured by mechanical arms, which was futuristic technology just a year ago. As it neared the ground, engines flaming, metal stilts detached from the hull and set it gently down, to fly again in the near future. The audience and ground crew erupted into cheers and applause, while the manned starship Space X Dragon — another cool name — continued toward the International Space Station and the stranded astronauts.

The Rescue Could Have Happened Sooner

This could’ve happened last year except Joe Biden was President. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams had been stuck on the ISS for nine months, having planned on just one week in space. A myriad of technical issues on DEI-riddled NASA’s Boeing — also DEI riddled — capsule made the return trip too dangerous. So, NASA made the decision to leave the pair up there until February — if the problems had been solved by then (they weren’t). Enter the Man from Planet X.

Elon Musk offered to bring the astronauts home much sooner. But as a Candidate Trump supporter and the savior of free speech on X, he was being pilloried by the Left almost as much as he is now as head of DOGE. His contributions to green energy via a revolutionary electric car meant nothing in comparison. Knowing a successful space rescue would popularize Musk and embarrass the Administration, the Biden people rejected his offer.

“They were left up there for political reasons,” Musk told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “Which is not good.” Asked to confirm or deny Musk’s statement, astronaut Wilmore called it “absolutely factual.”

I resumed watching the rescue mission on Sunday, just in time to see Dragon X dock with the ISS. The incredibly sharp video reminded me of the awesome Enterprise docking scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, only much more thrilling in its reality. The two space vehicles linked up, the ISS hatch opened. The ISS occupants, including Wilmore and Williams, embraced the rescue team in spectacular zero gravity. One of the rescuers was the very beautiful Nichole Ayers, her long hair floating freely, which added a bit of Hollywood showmanship to the event.

But it was a glorious movie moment that will probably never be. Because of the Man from Planet X, who must not be named in Hollywood except as a villain. That entertainment-deprived young men and boys would line up to see it is precisely what today’s woke filmmakers resent. The great actor Nick Searcy (Justified) analyzed it best in a post on X. “If Hollywood wasn’t populated almost exclusively by anti-American communists, the future film about the rescue of these astronauts by @elonmusk’s SpaceX would already be in the works.”

Hopefully a conservative producer will pick up the free money. My laptop is ready for duty.

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