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…
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Crew-9 Returns to Earth
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't the ISS always have a return ship or two in case of emergencies?
Yes but if they’d used that the remaining astronauts would not have it. Saying they weren’t stuck because there was one life boat is disingenuous, because zero lifeboats for the crew that were to remain is unacceptable.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
It wasn’t a rescue https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/science/boeing-starliner-astr...
They may have fun up there. But it would be also bad for their careers to not project anything but a "prepared and committed" vibe. This is all clearly over politicized
Rescues have more of an urgency vibe, don’t you think?
Remember the kids stuck in the cave?
That was a rescue.
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#244Eric Berger has a good summary on the narrative: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/can-nasa-remain-nonpar...
Then this line: "NASA—not the Biden administration, which all of my reporting indicates was not involved in any decision-making—decided the best and safest option"... NASA is part of the executive branch. So yes, it was the Biden administration.
I don't necessarily agree with Musk that the delay was politically motivated, but this article is a political hit piece through and through.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
And loved every minute of being up there. They were promised 8 days in space and got 8 months doing awesome science on the ISS. They’re astronauts; they live for this stuff.
Did someone ask them to really know they liked the unplanned stay or are we all just making things up?
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#246Just 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…
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"Write a set of alternative lyrics to the theme for Gilligan's Island based on the two astronauts that went up in the Boeing Starliner and were supposed to spend about 8 days in the ISS but ended up spending about 9 months. It's important to follow the meter and rhyme pattern."
ChatGPT (emojis are the LLM's):
Here’s a set of alternative lyrics to the Gilligan’s Island theme, capturing the Boeing Starliner astronauts’ unexpectedly extended stay on the ISS:
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Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful flight, That started from a launchpad base, And soared into the night.
The crew was only set to stay For just a week or two, But Boeing’s ship had other plans, And stretched it out to new!
(And stretched it out to new!)
The docking worked, they made it there, The mission seemed on track, But then they found some little leaks, And couldn’t make it back!
And couldn’t make it back!
The calendar kept flipping by, With patches, tests, and checks, While Houston said, "Just wait a bit," "We’re working out the specs!"
So here they stay on the orbiting lab, For months, not days but more! With coffee, jokes, and floating sleep, In zero-g galore!
In zero-g galore!
They’ll one day ride the Starliner home, If Boeing gets it right, And finally end this long delay, From what was just a flight!
(From what was just a flight!)
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This keeps the original tune and humor while capturing the unexpected (and slightly ridiculous) nature of their extended stay.
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#247can they sue NASA for compensation?
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Berger is an excellent journalist. He’s very knowledgeable about space topics, has good sources, and has been extremely fair to Musk in the past. When he says it’s a “throne of lies”, a line has been crossed.
Ars has been like this ever since Conde Nast bought them. It was a great publication a long time ago.
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#249Eric Berger has a good summary on the narrative: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/can-nasa-remain-nonpar...
Berger is an excellent journalist. He’s very knowledgeable about space topics, has good sources, and has been extremely fair to Musk in the past. When he says it’s a “throne of lies”, a line has been crossed.
>They got left in space
And Musk >They were left up there for political reasons
There was the line already crossed, because those statements are untrue and they know.
In other words they lied.
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#250Just 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…
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"Write a set of alternative lyrics to the theme for Gilligan's Island based on the two astronauts that went up in the Boeing Starliner and were supposed to spend about 8 days in the ISS but ended up spending about 9 months. It's important to follow the meter and rhyme pattern."
Claude:
The Ballad of Starliner
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful trip, That started from Cape Canaveral Aboard this spaceship.
The crew was two brave astronauts, The mission just eight days long. Then several systems failed that day, The timeline was all wrong, the timeline was all wrong.
The thrusters started leaking fuel, The schedule lost its way. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, They'd be lost in space today, they'd be lost in space today.
They settled in the station then, For a much extended stay, With two astronauts, and some cosmonauts too, Research night and day, The engineers, Mission Control, NASA chiefs, And Boeing's team, all working hard, Here on Starliner Isle!