ISS Astronaut Christina Koch returns to Earth with two cremates...

[Dennis Donovan]

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Peter Baker ✔@peterbakernyt

Christina Koch, who spent nearly 11 months in orbit on the longest spaceflight by a woman, lands back on Earth along with two cremates from the International Space Station.

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/06/world/europe/ap-eu-space-station.html …
NASA's Record-Setting Koch, Crewmates Safely Back From Space
NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who has spent nearly 11 months in orbit on the longest spaceflight by a woman, landed landed safely in Kazakhstan on Thursday along with two of her International Space...

8:27 AM - Feb 6, 2020

Peter Baker misspelled "crewmates" and Twitter's having fun:

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Jack Shafer ✔@jackshafer

The two of them burned up in a fire?

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Dennis Donovan @jackandloganinc

There were deaths on the ISS? Man, Trump keeps us in the dark about EVERYTHING!😆

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PolitixFix @PolitixFix

They're cremating people in space now?@ElonMusk is behind this, isn't he?

[rampartc]

1. welcome home astro/cosmo nauts

[Sneederbunk]

2. Must have been very hot up there.

[exboyfil]

3. I thought they were vanity rich who had their remains sent to space

and returned so the family can say they made it into space.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. I've heard of cremains being shot into space (Gene Roddenberry and Dr Leary come to mind)

...but I hadn't heard of "round trips".

[Crunchy Frog]

8. I thought the same thing. Imagining little urns on the ISS.

[CentralMass]

4. Good catch :-)

[CentralMass]

7. Thank you. I just caught it. You are miles ahead me.

[Dennis Donovan]

9. I LOL'd when I saw it that way on Twitter

Every comment is about the typo.

[Laelth]

10. Online "journalism" can be really sloppy.

It bugs me every time I see an error like this, but this one made me chuckle, at least.

-Laelth

[klook]

11. It cremains to be seen

what the fallout from this will be. The reporter really buried the lede, didn’t he? I guess he’s urning his paycheck as he sweeps up the ashes from this mistake.