Nonsense. They aren’t stranded and could leave right now if they needed to. The part they are collecting data on isn’t even made to reenter anyways. They aren’t in any danger and they still have plenty of docking time left.
2024 news. Even science news.
We truly live in post-truth era.
Oh the headline is straight up lies? Publish it anyways.
We complain about ai being a bullshit generator, but I think we couldn’t have come up with anything better.
That’s not good. Hopefully there can be a rescue mission if need be.Also Boeing needs to stop fing up. They keep killing people…
I’m sure SpaceX will happily arrange for a rescue mission at Boeing’s expense!
This also might be the thing the first astronauts warned us about a private space industry. Sure, they can innovate faster and cheaper, but not as safely. There’s a 60 minutes interview with musk crying because his astronaut idols didn’t see eye to eye with him on privatizing space.
It is not the first time that Boeing did something space-related for the military or NASA. The big difference is that while on earlier contracts they just asked for more money time and again, this time they are on a fixed budget and have to show results before getting paid.
And they cannot claim it was not enough money to get people up and down safely. From the same pot, SpaceX got about half as much as Boeing got. Boeing cried foul about this “wasting” money on an unexperienced upstart! And now look where both companies are with their project: SpaceX is happily going up and down like an elevator, and Boeing, with twice the money and years of delay, launched people into space with a known-defekt spaceship.
I in no way want to diminish the achievements of the original astronauts but that doesn’t mean they’re always right. SpaceX has shown that it can work.
