SpaceX to the rescue?

Originally set to return in mid-June, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be on the station until February, 2025.

During a press conference today, NASA representatives confirmed they have a contingency plan to bring astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams home from the International Space Station (ISS) early next year. If they’re unable to leave sooner aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that brought them there

Tests conducted at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility pointed to deformed Teflon seals being a potential cause of the Starliner’s thrusters failing, but the agency isn’t expected to make a final decision on whether or not Williams and Wilmore will return using Boeing’s spacecraft until mid-August.

  • Bimfred@lemmy.world
    42·
    4 months ago

    They have 8 incident-free crew missions under their belt. Sit your ass down, the adults are talking.

      • Bimfred@lemmy.world
        31·
        4 months ago

        Fucking lol.

        EDIT: Hoo boy, you didn’t even look at what you linked, did you? My point was that SpaceX has completed 8 crewed missions. The video is just half an hour of Thunderfoot’s inane rambling about launch costs. Not a single word about whether or not SpaceX has completed any crewed missions, ISS or otherwise. That’s the point I’m challenging you to disprove here. Go ahead. Show your work. I’m looking forward to it.

            • Snapz@lemmy.world
              12·
              3 months ago

              Didn’t like what you saw, huh? Bummer bud… Keep packing for Mars though, huh?

              • Bimfred@lemmy.world
                21·
                3 months ago

                Thunderfoot’s psychotic obsession with Musk and the complete denial of reality happening before his eyes it necessitates has destroyed any credibility as a scientist he ever had. The authority of a food chemist on matters of rocket science is questionable in the first place. Your blind, unquestioning acceptance of whatever drivel escapes his frothing mouth is no less pathetic.

                And with that, I’m going to toast to the memory of the brain cells I’ve lost over the course of this “conversation”. Hoping for anything even resembling a reasoned argument from you is clearly a fool’s errand.

                • Snapz@lemmy.world
                  12·
                  3 months ago

                  Can you hear the people laughing through your screen? Laughing at your violent, frantic, sweaty flailing to establish a false narrative before they have a chance to click the link and see for themselves just how full of Mars dust you are? Look at all the effort going into your desperation out of fear that daddy might not see you for the temporarily embarrassed millionaire you dream to be…

                  Worship.