SpaceX Brings Home Astronauts After Boeing's Starliner Delays Extend ISS Mission
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/10/25/1213246/spacex-brings-home-astronauts-after-boeings-starliner-delays-extend-iss-mission
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Technical issues with Boeing's Starliner capsule in September, followed by Hurricane Milton and persistent rough seas, delayed their planned return by two months. The crew launched in March as part of NASA's commercial crew program. Their replacements include Boeing Starliner test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose mission expanded from eight days to eight months, alongside two SpaceX-launched astronauts. The new crew will remain aboard the station until February.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/25/spacex-astronauts-return-to-earth-after-delay-due-to-boeing-capsule-snags
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> The two astronauts were overjoyed to be returning to Earth. Upon being told they would be returning to Florida, both astronauts attempted to exit the space stations through the airlock before being sedated with tranquilizer darts, strapped in the capsule and returned to Earth.
> [ Click the video below to listen to the desperate pleas of both astronauts begging to be taken anywhere but Florida ]
> [ Related News: New Jersey governor celebrates astronauts might have wanted to be taken to New Jersey instead of Florida. ]
It seemed odd that they removed such interesting stuff but whatever.
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Thanks so much for that - my wife and I are still laughing!
If it's Boeing, (Score:2)
we can't get it going!
First time for two U.S. ships in one trip? (Score:3)
I think this might be the first time astronauts ascended in one U.S. ship and returned in another. (Soyuz is Russian). Kinda cool to have a first like that one.
Starliner Crew Still in Space (Score:4, Insightful)
The Starliner crew did not return to Earth. A different crew of astronauts were returned. Butch and Sunny have become part of the crew rotation schedule and are "replacing" this crew that returned. Butch and Sunny won't return until the next rotation in February.
Notice all the bad press around SpaceX, now? (Score:1)
If it's not California trying to run off another one of Elon's businesses it's the news pounding on SpaceX and Tesla because Elon had the temerity to buy Twitter and [1]fire some of the censors [yahoo.com] (of course they still censor for Elon, just not for the far-left media or government as readily, which is what they are pissed about). With the exception of "space news" sites, one rarely finds a regular (read: lefty) news outlet running stories about SpaceX that aren't negative. It's just like when McDonalds did the Tr
[1] https://www.yahoo.com/tech/elon-musk-fires-thousands-outsourced-093626491.html
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What are you talking about? I read positive stories about Space-X all the time - and my news sources are typically what MAGAZINE nitwits refer to as "leftist".
Competent news organizations are good about differentiating between Musk the person and his businesses.
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P.S. Thank you autocorrect.
Boeing living up to is reputation (Score:2)
Or how to run a technological company by turning control thereof over to MBAs.
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> Or how to run a technological company by turning control thereof over to MBAs.
s/run/& to the ground/
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To be fair, in the long run this ruins any company.
When starting a new company, typically it has a purpose and making money with it is critical but not that actual purpose.
When the MBAs take over, this relationship changes - they don't give a single shit about anything other than making money, and ironically with this new focus they gradually destroy the thing that makes the money.
I had no doubt they could do it (Score:2)
If SpaceX could catch the returning rocket on the arm of the launcher, then he sure as hell can bring home our astronauts. Thank you Elon!
Speaking of which, a bunch of "patriots" talked shit about Musk for doing the rocket catch and not a damn thing about the stranded astronauts. Remember the government actually sidelined him and he wasn't allowed even in the EV summit let alone space program. But when 4 astronauts are stranded that long, the WH didn't have a choice. They had no options to bring the peop
excellent (Score:1)
I am always happy when space mishaps are successfully overcome by plan B.
Last time it was with Soyuz problem on orbit, which resulted in a plunge from orbit with all the crew safe.
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This return mission didn't overcome the Starliner 'mishap'. Those astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, are still on the ISS, and will be returned on another SpaceX mission in February 2025.
Crew-8 was always expected to return on the Crew-9 Dragon capsule, according to NASA data. Wilmore and Williams were expected to return aboard Starliner-1, but problems with that craft led to their being incorporated into the ISS crew until next February, to be returned on the SpaceX Dragon Crew-9.
Crew-9 launched
I heard Plan B costs a lot of money (Score:2)
But some political candidates are promising to heavily subsidize its purchase.