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The stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts planned to hitch a ride home with SpaceX, but their space suits aren’t compatible with Elon Musk’s spacecraft
Fortune ^
| August 22, 2024
| Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez
Posted on 08/30/2024 4:43:32 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:43:32 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Send some suits up for them on the Dragon.
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:46:24 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
To: george76
NASA: Hey, Elon, can you pick our astronauts up from the space station?
Elon: Ugh. Fine.
NASA: And can you bring up a couple of spare spacesuits?
Elon: What?!
To: george76
What? No standardized space suits? :)
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:48:37 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: VTenigma
Send some suits up for them on the Dragon. Yeah, that would be my first thought.
Granted that would leave less room for supplies on the way up but having two extra people on the station is also a strain on supplies.
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:48:41 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: george76
Duct tape - the handyman’s secret weapon.
To: george76
They have a clown named Bill Nelson running NASA these days...another wornout political hack!
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:50:03 PM PDT
by
Brandonmark
(November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
To: george76
Sounds like a scene from Apollo 13. "We need to make this, fit into the hole for this, using nothing but that".
To: Brandonmark
Reminds me of the old fox, chicken and sack of grain across the river puzzle
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:50:55 PM PDT
by
organicchemist
(Without the second amendment, the first amendment is just talk)
To: VTenigma
Shhhh! You’re gonna steal all the clickbait headlines from the reporters who don’t bother to do 45 seconds of research, or think past the end of their noses.
To: VTenigma
Indeed. This is why the date of February is necessary to bring them back. It takes time to build these suits. NASA will give the astronauts specific body dimensions to Spacex for them to have tailored suits made.
This isn't rocket science, sheesh!
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:52:04 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: All
Boeing: “I wish people would quit saying they’re stranded. They’re NOT stranded, they just can’t come home right now”.
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:52:22 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Three conspiracy theorists walk into the bar . . . . same time . . coincidence? I think not.)
To: george76
Fer crissake, even the Russians made their aircraft fuel fittings compatible with US stuff.
These clowns all used a different design standard?
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:53:24 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
To: george76
Fer crissake, even the Russians made their aircraft fuel fittings compatible with US stuff.
These clowns all used a different design standard?
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:54:49 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
To: doorgunner69
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:55:20 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
To: george76
If I was Elon, the only way those astronauts would come back on my ship is if Boeing agreed to jettison their hunk of metal into the Sun.
Then and only then would I let anyone hitch a ride home. Oh, and Boeing would have to agree to make a public statement that it was a SpaceX vessel that had to rescue their astronauts.
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:57:41 PM PDT
by
voicereason
(When a bartender can join Congress and become a millionaire...there’s a problem.)
To: george76
Iwonder these people up there are not going crazy by now. What an ordeal!
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:57:46 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: george76
kinda highlights the need to store a few extra suits on the space station
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posted on
08/30/2024 4:59:34 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: george76
This is an old, outdated article. It’s been posted before.
The Starliner astronauts are coming back on SpaceX Dragon in February 2025. SpaceX is bringing up two suits fitted for those astronauts.
To: Disambiguator
> Duct tape - the handyman’s secret weapon. <
Red Green, is that you?
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posted on
08/30/2024 5:01:22 PM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
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