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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 a Boeing ship Two astronauts went up that day, They both were brave and true, The Starliner delivered them, To join ISS crew. ...for an eight day station tour. The testing on the Starliner, Was thoroughly performed. Although it probably was safe, The NASA team were warned. So the Starliner came home to Eart…
they were not trapped or stranded... they were re-scheduled.
This sort of shit happens a lot. the whole "stranded" wordage is being repeated by the MSM seemingly at the behest of the Trump administration and associated cronies.
I'm going ahead and deciding that astronaut is no longer the awesome job I thought it was when I was younger. I'm good on that.
I'm going ahead and deciding that astronaut is no longer the awesome job I thought it was when I was younger. I'm good on that.
I don’t understand this take? They got to spend the better part of a year doing what they love. Sounds pretty kick-ass to me.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/can-nasa-remain-nonpar...
This whole thing has made me very angry. they were not trapped or stranded... they were re-scheduled. This sort of shit happens a lot. the whole "stranded" wordage is being repeated by the MSM seemingly at the behest of the Trump administration and associated cronies.
Being a savior is fine, just do it fucking quietly please.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
maybe not on your lifetime but at the speed of current progress, maybe your son or grandchildren can become space settler to terraform mars in the next generation (that literally coolest thing ever)
Becoming a space settler on Mars: cool Contributing to bringing Earth to a state where it will have to be "terraformed" itself: not so cool
This whole thing has made me very angry. they were not trapped or stranded... they were re-scheduled. This sort of shit happens a lot. the whole "stranded" wordage is being repeated by the MSM seemingly at the behest of the Trump administration and associated cronies.
If you find you're suddenly offended by the words of the clown class you're likely to have been massively partisan to the last in-charge circus-troupe
I'm going ahead and deciding that astronaut is no longer the awesome job I thought it was when I was younger. I'm good on that.
Another astronaut comments on what the Crew-9 people can expect: "The returning astronauts will "struggle to walk, get dizzy easily, and have bad eyesight", because the "build-up of fluid changes the shape of their eyeballs, and weakens their vision". They may need glasses for the rest of their lives."
Living without gravity seems to be harder on some than others. Valery Polyakov spent 435 days in space, longer than anyone else. He apparently didn't suffer much in the way of after-effects, had a good post-flight career, and died at age 80.