SpaceX Capsule Arrives To Pick Up Stuck NASA Astronauts: What Happens Next?

[Polybius]

Source: MSN

A day after takeoff, a Space X crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday to deliver replacements for two of NASA's stuck astronauts.

NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been "stuck in space" for nine months. They were launched at the International Space Station (ISS) on a test flight of Starliner, a spacecraft built under NASA's contract with Boeing.

Wilmore and Williams launched on what they originally thought was going to be an eight-day mission, but NASA officials determined that it was unsafe for the astronauts to return in the Starliner due to propulsion problems. NASA then had to find an alternative way to bring the astronauts home.

The Boeing Starliner capsule had encountered multiple problems, so much so that NASA has ultimately insisted it comes back empty, leaving the test pilots, Wilmore and Williams waiting for a SpaceX lift.

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[hlthe2b]

1. I HATE that we are dependent on Musk and private tech for this. Privatization of critical programs

is NOT the answer. But, restoring and fully funding NASA appears a thing of the past. sigh...

[ga_girl]

6. Funding NASA just provides a conduit to private/corporations

Project Mercury - McDonnell Aircraft Corp
Project Gemini - McDonnell Aircraft
Project Apollo - North American Aviation
Space Transportation System - North American Rockwell
International Space Station - too many to name
SpaceX - SpaceX'
Starliner - Boeing

Not to say that NASA is fully funded - it's always been on a franks and beans diet.

[Mawspam2]

2. What happens next?

It blows up rapidly disassembles on re-entry.

[Sneederbunk]

3. No, they return safely and

appear with TSF, Eloon and SpaceX rockets in the White House driveway.

[rampartd]

5. i pray not

those astronauts are decent people.

[Mustellus]

4. Stop repeating Musk Propaganda !!!

Astronauts WANT TO FLY !!!

If it wasn't for Boeing, they would not have gotten their extra six months in orbit!

You are repeating an Elmo dig at President Biden, amplified by a media that learned their astronautical engineering watching Lost in Space.

They were not Stuck... in fact they went on X formerly Twitter, to contest Elmo's lies, as did the Station commander.

[womanofthehills]

11. " Six months in space leads to a decade's worth of long-term bone loss"

“During space missions lasting six months or longer, astronauts can experience bone loss equivalent to two decades of aging. A year of recovery in Earth’s gravity rebuilds about half of that lost bone strength, researchers report June 30 in Scientific Reports.”

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/space-bone-loss-density-astronaut-recovery-gravity

[LudwigPastorius]

7. It's got to be surreal for those astronauts.

You leave for an 8 day mission, and come back to a dystopian nightmare-in-progress in which half of the agency you work for has been fired, and the country is being run by the richest Nazi in the world and a mentally ill man-baby bent on its destruction.

[Bengus81]

8. Fuck the whole thing. NASA is going to splash the Space Station in five years....

We don't need to drop more ridiculous multi million $$ contracts in his fucking lap to take them up and then go get a couple of people once or twice a year while he tries to KILL Social Security....

Fuck that POS..............

[hueymahl]

9. If Musk was not the leader of SpaceX

Would we still hate SpaceX? Just wondering if it is possible to separate the 1000's of brilliant people doing amzaing work from the shitstain leader?

I personally think we should separate the two. SpaceX is a great American company.

[Buddyzbuddy]

10. This wasn't a problem when we had space shuttles.

You would think the Felon in charge would see that as a benefit. He could put his name on the side and send it into space.