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1 posted on 08/30/2024 4:43:32 PM PDT by george76
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Send some suits up for them on the Dragon.


2 posted on 08/30/2024 4:46:24 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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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?!


3 posted on 08/30/2024 4:48:20 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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What? No standardized space suits? :)


4 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)
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Duct tape - the handyman’s secret weapon.


6 posted on 08/30/2024 4:49:44 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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They have a clown named Bill Nelson running NASA these days...another wornout political hack!


7 posted on 08/30/2024 4:50:03 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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Sounds like a scene from Apollo 13. "We need to make this, fit into the hole for this, using nothing but that".
8 posted on 08/30/2024 4:50:08 PM PDT by ken in texas
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Boeing: “I wish people would quit saying they’re stranded. They’re NOT stranded, they just can’t come home right now”.


12 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.)
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Fer crissake, even the Russians made their aircraft fuel fittings compatible with US stuff.

These clowns all used a different design standard?


13 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)
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Fer crissake, even the Russians made their aircraft fuel fittings compatible with US stuff.

These clowns all used a different design standard?


14 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)
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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.


16 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.)
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Iwonder these people up there are not going crazy by now. What an ordeal!


17 posted on 08/30/2024 4:57:46 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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kinda highlights the need to store a few extra suits on the space station


18 posted on 08/30/2024 4:59:34 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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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.


19 posted on 08/30/2024 5:01:13 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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Give me a break. We got Apollo 13 home by just using duct tape and cardboard.

Oh, I guess we will just leave them to die in outer space …   /sarc

21 posted on 08/30/2024 5:05:13 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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This is so strange to me.

We put a man on the moon, but we can’t send a spacecraft promptly to bring them home. ,seems,odd to me.


24 posted on 08/30/2024 5:10:17 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I expect SpaceX will figure something out.

Is the rescue going to be paid for by NASA?

Or will SpaceX foot the bill and count it as public relations or something?

28 posted on 08/30/2024 5:14:36 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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That’s on NASA project managers , If they can’t do a simple FMEA they should quit.


31 posted on 08/30/2024 5:20:34 PM PDT by bigbob
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It’s Apollo 13 all over with CO2 scrubbers incompatible between the LM and CM.


32 posted on 08/30/2024 5:20:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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something tells me an adapter could be made...

If I was stranded up there on that floating space junk I’d rather trust my life to Musk than Boing.


37 posted on 08/30/2024 5:38:08 PM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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Back in the 1960’s we had actual engineers with a slide rule that could fix this and even use duct tape if necessary.


42 posted on 08/30/2024 5:56:31 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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