Posted on 08/15/2021 7:04:21 AM PDT by Salman
The claims made by Russian media that NASA Astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor had a nervous breakdown and damaged a Russian spacecraft to get home are not credible, Kathy Lueders, who is leading NASA's human spaceflight program, said at a press conference on Friday.
Russia's TASS recently published a story, citing an unnamed source in the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, that claimed Aunon-Chancellor had an emotional breakdown in space and she made a microfracture in the Russian spacecraft to return early during a mission in 2018.
"Absolutely," Lueders said when asked whether NASA will defend its astronaut. "Our NASA crews perform their missions with professionalism and integrity. She [Aunon-Chancellor] is a well-respected crew member who has served her country and made a valuable contribution. I stand behind her and her professional conduct and I did not find this accusation credible."
Leuders is the Associate Administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate.
Aunon-Chancellor travelled on Soyuz MS-09 in 2018 for a six-month mission to the ISS together with ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev.
#10: Geeze!!! Hit every branch, eh?
“What if it was designed to cover a defect in the Russian hardware?”
I suppose anything is possible put the plain truth is I don’t trust in anything coming out of this Administration.
Somehow Democrats will find a way to blame Trump for it.
.........thanks DR for the extra info. I figured it was something like that and, anyway, who would believe a marxist democrat anyway on anything.
Normally I wouldn’t believe Putin either but in this case I think the Russians are probably closer to the truth than the democrats. I say “democrats” because the boss these days at NASA is one of the worst democrats. Namely Senator Bill Nelson.
Liz Cheney beat them to it.
diversity and nothing else
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The reality, and there much evidence, is that diversity not competence is the decision point.
It has changed and you can’t see it. It creeps in slowly. I would agree with you in the past but it is not the past anymore.
Look at Bidens appointments. NO COMPENTENCE AND BACKGROUND AT ALL in many decisions.
I agree with the poster. Diversity has changed from what we were sold..............................
NASA will never admit it. They will never admit she was nothing but problems and probably did it. Let’s just watch and see if they send her on another mission someday. That will tell us everything
This is just a transparently stupid piece of Russian agitprop, meant to distract from the recent Russian failures, including the Nauka failure, which could have killed everyone on the ISS.
“So what you’re saying is that there isn’t a single woman or a single minority as qualified or more qualified to be on the space station than a white guy?”
Yes. Now throw your little soy boy “every body is equal” temper tantrum.
Helluva price to pay for being stylish.
Isn't that a natural consequence of Affirmative Action?
Yup. Like dropping a rock right over your foot making your foot hurt.
No.
Not a SINGLE ONE.
White men are superior to all others in every way.
You must be one of them inferior types what needs mass extermination, like the cockroach you are.
I’d believe it more if they said she cracked the hull when she threw one of her heels at it. If you’re going to lie, lie big.
She wouldn’t be the first female astronaut to go nuts. Remember Lisa Nowak?
Diaper-wearing astronaut jailed in love triangle plot
https://www.denverpost.com/2007/02/05/diaper-wearing-astronaut-jailed-in-love-triangle-plot/
We did, in the past, too.
I dunno, they passed on Chuck Yeager.
Are you saying Chinese can't make logical conclusions?
Yes. Thw Chinese are inscrutible little midgets with crossed-eyes, an inability to tell the truth, and a larcenous greedy heart.
When they did the first shuttle mission after the Columbia accident, it was two white man is the only crew. Both of them look like they came out of the right stuff movie. When it’s for real, that’s where they turn. As for evidence, apparently there’s all kind of evidence of her requesting to return, NASA refusing. Her damaging the other toilet trying to re-engineer it fit better female needs. Her arguing with others.
Let’s see if she ever returns to the flight schedule.
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