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I expect Starliner to the rescue is being negotiated.
1 posted on 08/07/2024 6:02:27 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Well, NASA is going to get some of their employees killed. Their families should be lawyering up now. NASA and SS in cahoots.


2 posted on 08/07/2024 6:24:36 AM PDT by healy61 (.)
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The problem is apparently that there are only two docking ports on the "American side" of the ISS. One is occupied by the previous Crew Dragon, and the other is occupied by Starleaker.

(The "Russian side" ports only support Soyuz; American spacecraft can't use them even if the Russians would let us.)

Now they're saying that Starleaker's software won't support an autonomous undock and landing, and they need 4 weeks to develop, test, and upload the software. (They're worried about the Starleaker undocking and then going out-of-control and damaging the ISS.)

Which leads me to believe that NASA isn't convinced that Starleaker is safe to fly home, and CrewDragon will rescue the astronauts one way or the other.

5 posted on 08/07/2024 8:05:14 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Salman

I am sitting in rural N Nevada sage & sand & I can determine that STARLINER is not coming home with passengers.

MUSK is their only hope.


6 posted on 08/07/2024 8:17:22 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Salman

Williams and Wilmore will be offered very large compensation packages should the flight back fail.


8 posted on 08/07/2024 8:26:11 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Headline is misleading. It is NASA who called the delay, not SpaceX.


11 posted on 08/07/2024 9:19:27 AM PDT by Rio
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To: Salman

By the time the Starliner crew gets back to earth, the planet will be ruled by apes.


12 posted on 08/07/2024 10:23:16 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: Salman

NASA, now just another institution that has become useless.


20 posted on 08/07/2024 4:55:29 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Clay Bevis and Cuck Butthead are panty wadded, pearl clutching cowards. Rush deserves better.)
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To: Salman

Cut the stuckliner loose and dock the spacex capsule.
Next is bring back the crew from the stuckliner.


21 posted on 08/10/2024 1:26:28 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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