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SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS

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Post by whimsicalism »

rvnx wrote: post #277
perihelions wrote: post #232

There was an anomaly in the second stage deorbit burn (which did not impact the payload). Falcon is apparently grounded. https://www.space.com/spacex-pause-launches-crew-9-falcon-9-... ( "SpaceX pausing launches to study Falcon 9 issue on Crew-9 astronaut mission" ) - "After today’s successful launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9's second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, but experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn.…

"the second stage safely landed in the ocean, but outside of the targeted area. We will resume launching after we better understand root cause" reality: "It crashed somewhere in the ocean, we don't know why but we pretend it was safe, though we just got lucky"

with the scale of the planet, it would be more like really unlucky if it actually hit someone

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Post by mp05 »

chasd00 wrote: post #22
Seattle3503 wrote: post #12

> By the time they return, the pair will have logged more than eight months in space. They expected to be gone just a week when they signed up for Boeing’s first astronaut flight that launched in June. What kind of overtime do you think they are clocking?

Heh I’d hate to be their families too. Sometimes I travel for work, if a week turned into 8 months it would be mayhem.

It’s almost laughable how the general public tries to apply their own soft feelings to these people built for high-stakes work. None of these people are bothered by this and their families have become accustomed to this sort of thing and too obscenely full of pride to let their own emotions get in the way.

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Post by whimsicalism »

AdamN wrote: post #172
mlyle wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They regularly tamp down on sensationalist headlines.

I'd prefer they just block articles that use sensationalist headlines (when possible without blocking the entire topic).

i prefer the current approach especially when comments are already attached

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Post by api »

rvnx wrote: post #277
perihelions wrote: post #232

There was an anomaly in the second stage deorbit burn (which did not impact the payload). Falcon is apparently grounded. https://www.space.com/spacex-pause-launches-crew-9-falcon-9-... ( "SpaceX pausing launches to study Falcon 9 issue on Crew-9 astronaut mission" ) - "After today’s successful launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9's second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, but experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn.…

"the second stage safely landed in the ocean, but outside of the targeted area. We will resume launching after we better understand root cause" reality: "It crashed somewhere in the ocean, we don't know why but we pretend it was safe, though we just got lucky"

All rockets before Falcon always crashed in the ocean.

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Post by wannacboatmovie »

nimbius wrote: post #83
dotnet00 wrote: post #3

Man the reporting on this ordeal has been so awful and so representative of how media misleads the public into thinking things are worse than they actually are. It isn't a rescue mission, it's a regular crew rotation mission with modifications to account for the extra crew left on the station, and those crew are 'stuck' only in the sense that they're expected to stay there as part of their duties and it would be unne…

Occhams razor might say the reasons to downplay this incident are overwhelmingly more attractive. - Boeing is a fortune 50 company and is a direct contributor to news media advertising revenue. - Boeing is a darling of US aerospace and a bulwark of us international projection of soft power and defense. Telling the truth will destroy the us aircraft market. - china does not have this problem with its space program. Th…

> The comac airliner also directly competes with Boeing's beleaguered 737

Thanks but I'll take my chances on a MAX.

Do you know what happens when a Chinese-built plane crashes in China? There is no fancy congressional inquiry, no lawsuits, no crying families on TV. No, they hose off the crash site and put them in unmarked graves and build a shoddily-constructed apartment building over top of it. Maybe the pilot's family is jailed and never heard from again. Pretend it never happened and life over there continues as usual.

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Post by nycdotnet »

mab122 wrote: post #272
chainingsolid wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe new suits where made/available somehow. The SpaceX and Boeing suits are not compatible with the others space craft.

They should be! Have we not learned anything from Apollo? :D Or atleast provision an adapter or something.

The goal of two commercial vehicles was dissimilar redundancy. But yeah this should be worked on in the not too distant future.

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Post by SoftTalker »

heraldgeezer wrote: post #290
blowsand wrote: post #169

I’ve nothing substantive to add, but I note that the logic gymnastics on display in comments from all perspectives is somehow telling. Of something. Not sure what.

HN is leftie programmer sock space but loves tech and there is no denying the SpaceX and Starlink tech is good, but Elon is a trumpie so there is a dissonance where certain people cannot admit this or their whole world-view crashes so it is easier to say "Elon bad!!" or downplay that this is an emergency rescue mission as seen.

And Elon and his companies were lauded here before his politics became well known. Brandon Eich is another example of the phenomenon.

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Post by neverrroot »

yarg wrote: post #38
neverrroot wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kinda is, and it’s all Elon’s fault.

Or perhaps blame Boeing and NASA, rather than the single competent organisation that's managing to hold the whole damned thing together.

I meant to give Elon credit for being able to deliver a viable program where nobody else can.

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Post by wannacboatmovie »

perihelions wrote: post #232

There was an anomaly in the second stage deorbit burn (which did not impact the payload). Falcon is apparently grounded. https://www.space.com/spacex-pause-launches-crew-9-falcon-9-... ( "SpaceX pausing launches to study Falcon 9 issue on Crew-9 astronaut mission" ) - "After today’s successful launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9's second stage was disposed in the ocean as planned, but experienced an off-nominal deorbit burn.…

If something happens to Dragon (non-zero chance) they are going to regret not coming back on Boeing's space-Yugo.
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