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1 posted on 08/07/2024 1:15:15 PM PDT by DFG
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Just sit right back
And you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from this tropic port,
Aboard this Boeing ship.
The mate was a mighty Astronaut,
The Skipper brave and sure,
Their passengers blast off that day,
For an eight day tour,
An eight day tour.

The spaceship started breaking down,
The tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Starliner would be lost.
The Starliner would be lost.


50 posted on 08/07/2024 2:01:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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Imagine the overtime…


53 posted on 08/07/2024 2:05:03 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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I think NASA may bump the schedule of Crew Dragon flights and on an emergency basis launch in about 40 days a flight with only a two-astronaut crew so the Starliner crew can be brought back.


58 posted on 08/07/2024 2:13:23 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (.FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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I listened to Press Conference
Or as I describe as a NASA Spin Conference.


64 posted on 08/07/2024 2:29:22 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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a three-hour cruise


65 posted on 08/07/2024 2:33:37 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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It's a good thing there's a ballot drop box on the Starliner.

-PJ

66 posted on 08/07/2024 2:37:45 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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SpaceX Dragon was designed to fly 7 in a 4 + 3 two deck setup. For the love of all that is holy just send up crew 9 with the second row installed. Once at the ISS use the robot arm to move and hold that junker of starliner out of the docking port long enough to pull the seats and put them in the already docked Dragon then fly home with 4+2 in that Dragon. It’s not rocket science...or use the fact that Dragon can fly itself and undock the existing Dragon fly it a few Km away and hold just like they do for every normal arrival. Then fly in Crew 9 dock it pull the seats and undock it swap back in the other Dragon and fly home with 6. The absolute simplest is to fly Crew 9 with 6 seats and use it to bring NASA guys plus the older Dragon crew home home leaving the other Dragon to fly home Crew 9 Dragon has like a year of endurance docked to the ISS that older Dragon can just stay longer. This last way means dumping the Boeing turd for docking space before crew 9 gets there.


67 posted on 08/07/2024 2:38:22 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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How could they have enough supplies to last that long?


69 posted on 08/07/2024 2:50:07 PM PDT by old-ager
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That’s what happens when you hire a libtard idiot to run NASA


70 posted on 08/07/2024 2:52:41 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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Gilligan’s Space Station


80 posted on 08/07/2024 3:48:49 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Think of it as evolution in action. [Oath of Fealty - Pournelle and Niven])
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Why am I thinking about the movie “Gravity?”


86 posted on 08/07/2024 4:02:08 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Yes, I am the Toxic Troll Terminator)
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The Boeing Starliner was launched with known issues

I thought this was a very bad idea - you never go unless 100% mission capable


89 posted on 08/07/2024 4:29:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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PAGING ELON MUSK————


91 posted on 08/07/2024 5:52:46 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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That’s a lotta back pay…


92 posted on 08/07/2024 6:07:48 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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