[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Seriously? Sending the astronauts back to earth to die on reentry or to float around in space until dead?

They got it functioning to the point of control and docked it and kept them alive. That is at the top of the hierarchy of procedures.

[larrytown]

Just taking the article at face value.

I guess a ‘mandate’ really isn’t a mandate, much less a rule.

They put a crew on a ship that had not performed a ‘clean run’, and ran into the same issues as the previous attempt - and ended up using the same REMOTE process to “FIX” the issue.

What did anyone learn from this? Nothing.

Except perhaps that a GOVERNMENT space program, needed a POLITICAL WIN in the face of serious private enterprise competition, put two people at risk (in a yet-unproven vehicle) in order to show a ‘manned spaceflight’ success.

NASA is showing why it’s an obsolete fixture of the Cold War space race.