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Trapped in the universe?
Fyi, we are trapped on a huge rock that just produces air and water with a lot of green everywhere haha
A walled garden. Much Silicon Valley, very HN
Crew-9 Returns to Earth
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#42The optics of this were really bad
As much as people were saying they were not stranded (and honestly they weren't), having your mission jump from a few days to months is a bummer.
Sure, for a carreer astronaut, that's a great experience. But still, well, if I was sent on a professional mission for 3 days and had to stay a couple of months I would be very annoyed, as cool as the mission was.
Especially as it was due to (all the problems that were endlessly discussed already)
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#43I remember some discourse saying they were not "trapped" in space (as in physically unable to get to earth safely), they just didn't want there to be only one american crew member on the ISS, or something along those lines. Is anyone on the ISS now, or did they all come home?
They were scheduled to stay there for 8 days and had Boeing's vessel proven flight worthy, they would have returned after 8 days. The messaging beyond that was just political in nature. They could have been rescued, but were left on the station until after the election. The situation resulted in significant issues for the next crewing [1] leading to some interesting things like the first time a Russian cosmonaut was in control of an American spacecraft, let alone a rookie cosmonaut with only basic training on the Dragon.
It also led to some interesting improvisations. NASA has a requirement that there be a 'lifeboat' on the ISS for all crew in case of an emergency, but because of the Boeing crew (and the lack of a corresponding vessel), NASA approved a new 'configuration' of the Dragon where up to 3 people could strap themselves to the floor of it, where cargo would normally go, in case of the need of a mass escape from the ISS. [2]
As another fun aside, when the Starliner was returning [autonomously] to Earth it experienced two more errors, unrelated to the ones that left the astronauts stranded on the ISS in the first place. What a vessel.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-9
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Crew_Flight_Test#Uncrew...
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Feels more like getting an extended vacation getting to do the coolest thing you can do as a human.
They’ll spend their ‘working time’ getting back to being a functional human. Not exactly a good deal if you ask me.
oh I don't know, grueling rehab and moderate health consequences in exchange for getting to spend nine months in space seems like it'd be a deal many would take.
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#45They should make a movie about this, it was all fun we were going to space for 8 days and stayed for 9 MONTHS STRANDED NO WAY BACK HOME. i felt so bad for them honestly. Glad they’re safe and home now.
They were not stranded with no way back home
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.
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#46I'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.
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#48They should make a movie about this, it was all fun we were going to space for 8 days and stayed for 9 MONTHS STRANDED NO WAY BACK HOME. i felt so bad for them honestly. Glad they’re safe and home now.
They had a way back home if they needed to. They just didn't have a ride up for their replacements for a few months, so they asked them to stay longer to keep the ISS mission going.
Becoming a NASA astronaut is extremely hard. You have to check a ridiculous number of boxes, and you have to really want it. I think anyone who goes through this process would prefer a 6 month stay on the space station over a 2 week stay on the space station, and the 6 month stay is what they got.
NASA kept them safe and fed, I really don't think you can reasonably knock them from this perspective.
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#49Just 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…
Here is the original song (for those who are ignorant like me):
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I used to think the term «TDS» was hyperbole, but I can see it clearly now. It really is a thing, and it’s mutated into EDS as well. People can’t be positive about anything even tangentially related to Those Who Shall Not Be Named, even a space rescue mission.
It’s honestly just sad to observe.