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“Houston, the Media Has a Problem”
Let me tell you something that should have stopped everyone in their tracks recently. We had what I would call an *Apollo 13-level space emergency*, and nobody seemed to notice—or care. No front-page headlines. No ticker-tape countdowns on cable news. No late-night specials with dramatic music and a slow pan over concerned astronaut family members.
Nope. We had astronauts stuck—*stuck*—in space, and it got about as much coverage as a new seasonal flavor of Pop-Tarts.
I mean, what in the galaxy is going on?
Now, for those of you under 50—and let’s be honest, that’s a lot of folks—you probably think “Apollo 13” is just a Tom Hanks movie. A cool flick, maybe something you saw on TNT back in the day, right after a rerun of “Shark Tank.” But Apollo 13 was real. *Real men, real danger, real time*. It was a near-catastrophic NASA mission in 1970 that became a race against death after an oxygen tank exploded two days into the journey. That crew was circling the moon with a broken ship, running out of power, water, and air.
And yet, the entire world stopped to watch. It was national drama, international suspense, and for once in human history, the media covered something truly heroic.
Fast forward to 2025. We’ve got astronauts stuck up on the International Space Station because Boeing’s Starliner capsule—let me say that again, *Boeing’s* space capsule—has some “issues.” Translation: mechanical failures, s