When the astronauts stranded at the International Space Station were pictured wearing Santa hats next to a tiny Christmas tree this week, internet commenters had questions.
Santa made a surprise visit to the international space station on Tuesday. He gave the interned astronauts so many Christmas goodies and a mailbag of presents they decided to throw a party!
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, after all, launched in June on what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to space — but they’ve been stranded ever since thanks to problems with the Boeing Starliner capsule that was meant to be their ride home.
“Did they take Santa hats with them before they launched,” one commenter blithely asked on X. “Or did they knit them while they are there?”
Another commenter chimed in: “These the same guys who went up for an 8-day mission in June?” A third commenter joked “The Gilligan’s Island tune is playing.”
Still others seemed to think that the presence of Christmas decorations were a sign of a grand conspiracy, and that the astronauts aren’t really stuck in space. “It’s all one big show,” writes one commenter. Another X user claimed that the astronauts floating in space were actually in a film studio somewhere.
