Boeing Starliner astronauts stranded in space for 80 days will not return home until 2025: NASA

New York Post ^ | Aug. 24, 2024 | Olivia Land

[cgbg]

Can the astronauts sue Boeing and NASA?

This is just cruel.

[Bayard]

Be careful jettisoning that hellish construct, you never know it might blow the station when it detaches.

Built with the finest DIE work ethic from Boeing.

[broken_clock]

Maybe the stranded astronauts can call Elon…

[null and void]

“The decision to bring the astronauts home in February was the result of a “commitment to safety,” Nelson explained.”

Where was this “commitment” when they committed to launch knowing full well there were thruster problems and a helium leak?

[Ikeon]

Sounds like a USN fast attack deployment.. we're going out for the weekend. Nope, got a 2 week mission..... mission is going to last a little longer. .... nit sure when we are going home, navsea has scheduled a relief on station for February.. thats all...

I hope they packed extra socks and underwear...

[ryderann]

No doubt he’s been working on it since Starliner launched.

[rod5591]

Boeing is a “sinking ship”...or maybe it would be better to say Boeing is a “falling rocket”.

[Jyotishi]

They may tire of the free room and board.

[baclava]

DOOMED!

[broken_clock]

I figured a Dragon capsule would do the trick but it might be booked up or already committed to a mission.

[Navy Patriot]

Boeing Starliner astronauts stranded in space for 80 days will not return home until 2025: NASA

The lesson here is that these Astronauts took a job at NASA after NASA's history was available and well known to the public.

[Openurmind]

Have they had resupply yet? Two extra guys is a burden on resources.

[cgbg]

SpaceX should do a flyby and spray paint “Hotel California” on the space station.

:-)

[asinclair]

Before readers here get too far off the rails, remember that Butch and Suni have been on the ISS before, during a full crew rotation. Having to stay until February is a major inconvenience, but not a new experience for both.

As for the hazards of expelling the partially failed StuckLiner and the risks to the ISS, please recall that the StarLiner has performed the undocking from ISS before, in an uncrewed test. Boeing has to upload the software to do this safely -- in other words, get the StarLine back to status quo ante.

Now, the only risk is that the uncrewed-undocking software needs to be able contend with failed thrusters again. The existing SpaceX and Soyez spacecraft are still at the station to serve as lifeboats if things go terribly sideways, and you can bet all the occupants of the ISS will be in those lifeboats, and come out only if the undocking is without incident.

Overcautious? You might think so, but Challenger and Columbia still weight heavily on the minds of NASA people.

[cgbg]

Donner Party 2.0.

:-)

[Navy Patriot]

Built with the finest DIE work ethic from Boeing.

Matching the DEI and Environmentally Active work record at NASA.

[Cold War Veteran - Submarines]

Been there, done that

[ifinnegan]

Boeing is one of the companies that colluded with Clinton to support the Chicoms and provide them with nuclear weapon related abilities and technology which also was to be proliferated.

In other words Boeing is corrupt.

[Carl Vehse]

"Starliner will be brought back unmanned."

How is that a good idea or even possible since Boeing's Starliner Stuckliner didn't come with the autonomous operation software and requires operators inside the vehicle to control the spaceship and keep it from accidentally smashing into the ISS?