MASA is a government agency and subject to its politics.
Who wants to risk their life for that crap? Not me.
Are they republicans?
Never mind about this.
Let’s talk about “the bloodbath at USAID.”
Democrats are beyond despicable.
If you want to know what human life means to them, this situation is a perfect example.
Um, they were 'abandoned' on the full-scale ISS mockup in an on the ground NASA pool (complete with green screens)?
Now scheduled to return 5 March.
Sad thing is, everyone wants more than one US human rated launch provider to the ISS. Everyone wants Boeing to succeed.
3 hour tour.
Those poor people.
Note, when you see a newspaper article with a title like “NO, they’re not stranded”, you can reasonably assume from the dripping condescension that they are lying.
“No, Boeing Starliner’s NASA astronauts are not stranded in space. Here’s why.” | Space https://search.app/rincBQYHdWWvMKY9A
If Boeing was all that and a bag of chips, they would’ve had them home by now. Therefore Boeing sux. Leave it to Space X to get the job done.
Interestingly enough, while I’m not quite a space nerd, I read a lot about the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects. They show what government can accomplish when it actually truly wants to do something.
Anyway, I read with some interest that Starliner has problems with the thrusters.
Specifically, overheating. Teflon seals start to swell, and form an obstruction. Testing on the ground doesn’t really work, it has to be done in a vacuum chamber. Something about the fault triggered my memory.
NASA has an Oral History Project - where they interview Astronauts, Engineers, Flight controllers, everybody involved. One interview was with a guy from Marquardt, who had the contract for the thrusters in the early 1960s. They had a lot of problems with them. You’ll never guess what it was!
Overheating, teflon seals swelling, and causing obstruction in the flow.
To me it just shows how shortsighted our politicians were in killing the space program. They allocated and spent the money 60 years ago, taking a “clearly leading role” - and threw it all away. Here we are - Starliner is 7 years behind schedule, it’s possible it won’t fly again! And what is their current goal? Well 7 years ago, they were supposed to go into orbit around the Moon.
Something America already did, in 1968
This is very unexceptable. Sean Jeffrey Christopher should have flown by Saturm 6 years ago.
There is only one reason they haven’t come back.
So the news can paint this as a Trump failure every single day they are up there.
Except Elon had already ‘rescued’ the astronauts months ago.
For some reason, they elected NOT to bring back the astronauts on that trip.
Rescue trip was launched September 28, 2024 ! BBC reported the docking on Sept 30.
Hi Bob. This happened on For All Mankind and the astronauts had only one tape of old Bob Newhart episodes and they entertained themselves by repeating the episode they had memorized and greeted one another with Hi Bob. I’d think being out there so long would wear on your psyche. I can hardly imagine.