Boeing Starliner crew's return to Earth from International Space Station delayed yet again
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck in space for months longer than expected, and will not return to Earth until at least March 2025 at the earliest, NASA indicated.
I know people have spent longer on the ISS but at some point, I’d come back in a Home Depot bucket wearing a spacesuit with some scuba gear.
And for those who want to argue about the heat shielding on a Home Depot bucket, I’d be responsible about it. I’d glue all kinds of shit to it. Steal a parachute from the Roscosmos side. I’d be fine.
“You’d land in the Indian Ocean."
This isn’t rocket science. It’s the opposite. I’ll land where I want. I’d aim for your mom’s house and land in her bedroom. Injuries would include a crushed pelvis and not from the fall. That’s just what happens when I visit your mom.
Death by snu snu. Nice.
Reads like a Mark Watney diary entry
Glorious build up to a "fucked yo mama" joke. Excellent pacing!
Holy shit; planned to spend 10 days, stuck there for almost a year... (if they finally manage this schedule)
"For the love of god don't cut that corner or some one will die"
-Man who shot himself in the back of the head twice.
fwiw, they both may never go back to space again so their time in space has been extended much beyond what they thought they could do and have repeatedly said they are trying to make the most of it. The real problem is just the scheduling bumps and resource allocations.
Also health problems increase when in space longer. Specifically drastic increased risk of cancer due to lack of sufficient radiation shielding.
I don't think the radiation should be too big of a problem, they are in a very low earth orbit, well inside of the Earth's magnetosphere. Not to say there are no health risks, they lose a lot of bone and muscle mass, but radiation shouldn't be a big concern
Modern day Gilligan’s Island reboot time.
An excellent idea, with each season finale being another failed return trip that gets delayed, and then the next season all their conditions are significantly worse until they resort to canabalism
No, we keep rebooting it every 3 seasons like Power Rangers or something.
In the end we will have 15 or so astronaut teams on different space stations.
A 3 month tour. 🎶
Gilligan's Planet was an underrated gem.
It was a ship and not a space station but same idea. Cancelled after 2 seasons though.
That was a good show too.
Looks like the fear of a Boeing suicide ain't bringing the morale as much as needed to execute this.
Another example of US corporate culture yielding yuge results. Epic.
That will teach them to fly Boeing.
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship...
I wonder which one gets to be "and the rest" this time.
What if this whole thing was a ruse and they're keeping them up there because they know they're dangerous aliens wearing human skin?
But if they realise that we know this they'll send a signal to their mother ship and kill us all.
So we're holding them up there while we come up with a plan...
Looks like you're 100% correct. They're gearing up to take those fuckers out:
Those poor bastards.
A two week expendition has turned into 10 months. -Capitalism, baby!
What does that have to do with capitalism?
I'm new to lemmy world. I'm noticing every top comment is something negative about capitalism. Either the clueless reddit communists came over or it's just Russian trolls. It could be a stubbed toe, "CAPITALISM FOR YA!!" I picked to post here because this is 8 out of 10 posts now. It's pretty much equivalent to "THANKS OBAMA!"
I wonder how much money they are getting paid while stuck, I'd imagine it's gotta be pretty significant.
I assumed that the NASA astronaut corps have a standard salary whether the astronauts get to fly or not. Are they only paid while in space?
Getting paid full 24/7 overtime, perhaps. Not that they don't deserve it.
They will probably owe Boeing money in all honesty.
It feels like we're just watching them slowly die up there. Maybe one of the billionaires is trying to discredit public space programs for good and their deaths are intended to be that final bell.
Edit: Thanks for the down votes guys! I guess my concerns are unfounded.
They're astronauts, they're loving this, they've said so in Interviews and it's pretty obvious they've not just been told to say that. That's not to mention that Starliner is a private spacecraft (just as much as Dragon is) and that's the only thing being discredited here.
The ISS still gets regular deliveries and even some replacement astronauts from SpaceX but the Boeing and SpaceX suits aren't inter-compatible so they can't hitch a ride back afaik.
When your government is so afraid of socialism that they won't even mandate that the two companies they contract out share some compatibility for the sake of convenience.
"Should we tell them that part of the deal is that they have to both work with the others technology?"
"What are you, Lenin?"
I wonder what the defining amount of bone density loss marks the onset of osteoporosis. A cursory google search suggests that they are losing between 1-2% per month in space.
Oof. Upvoted as hell. That is EXACTLY how capitalism works. Except that said billionaire would have to be planning on profiting from their own private space program instead…