"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"
Posted on 06/20/2024 6:01:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
Two astronauts will be stuck on the International Space Station for at least another week as experts at NASA and Boeing struggle to fix their spacecraft.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived on the ISS on June 6 after a successful Boeing Starliner launch. Expected to only stay a week, the two will not be arriving on Earth before June 26, NASA and Boeing officials said in a Tuesday press conference.
The Boeing Starliner is facing several mechanical problems. En route to the station, the crew reported problems with five thrusters and four helium leaks. A fifth helium leak has since cropped up. Crews are working to make sure its safe before the astronauts are put back on and return home.
This delay comes after NASA and Boeing crews announced June 22 as their return date.
“We want to give our teams a little bit more time to look at the data, do some analysis, and make sure we’re really ready to come home,” Steve Stich, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager, said on Tuesday.
Stich said they do not see a scenario “where Starliner is not going to be able to bring Butch and Suni home.”
Crews will attempt to land in the White Sands area of New Mexico next week. If the crew cannot make the June 26 landing, the next “prime opportunity” will be on July 2, .
Dana Weigel, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, said the crew is feeling positive.
“They love Starliner, they love being in the vehicle, they love being on ISS,” Weigel said on Tuesday. “I think, you know, if you ask Butch and Suni, they might want to stay for a long period of time.”
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"I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"
“This has the makings of a great comedy”
Before its over it may make Apollo 13 look like a picnic.
Having Joe Bidet announce what a hero you were is a really bad way to leave this world.
;-)
I always felt bad for our heros that had to endure receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor from that POS obama......and that goes for taterhead as well.
This has the makings of a Country & Western song.
Why ask the Russians , crew Dragon Endeavor is docked at the ISS right now, it can hold up to seven that’s one more than the 4 plus the 2 stranded NASA guys. Ask Elon super nice if he will let them come home on Endeavor.
I think the ship was Pan Am maybe a Boeing craft?
Been waaaaaay too long since I looked at it
Great graphic but “I” see what they didn’t there...
How long is wei tiáo lóng?
2024 is a Dragon year, after all.
木龍
Mù lóng
If the person asking you if you are happy is the one with your ticket home from orbit you will say whatever you have to say to get that ticket home.
These astronauts have a gun to their head—their pronouncements should be treated like those of prisoners of war.
Confucius say “After three days fish and visitors stink.”..............
Never a bad DEI out there!
Who would trust NASA with their lives anymore anyway?
It was a sketchy enough proposition in the 60s, so I can understand why people think the Moon landings were faked.
Fake, or must have involved multiple miracles, the work of a much higher power.
One of the lessons I learned fairly quickly in the corporate world was never trust anyone who will lose their job if they say the opposite of their public statements.
They have an inherent conflict of interest.
If you think about it that applies to everybody who is interviewed by the mass media—all corporate executives or leaders of any large organization of any kind and of course all government officials.
Why would you believe anything someone says with a gun to their head?
I wonder how the “It’s a Boeing. WTH are you doing going to outer space on a craft that cant fly in inner space?” I bet the mind worms of astronauts get pretty sever.
OJ didnt inspire?
I believed in the Patton quote:
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
That applied and applies to the Space Race as well.
Tain’t nothing a little more moslim outreach won’t fix...
Look for the union label...................
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