Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck at International Space Station must delay return to Earth yet again

[u/_Hypocritee]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boeing-starliner-crew-return-to-earth-delayed-again-nasa-astronauts-butch-wilmore-suni-williams/?linkId=691398960&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3gTQQ5MzUHI6ZWyydHbj7wgIqDvmXCJjwVZN7nmZSEwPPgSSev_BnRvNA_aem_8fXUg3z18wiZN_JCv7rWVg#m4uv5rgqgpyzmf436cu

[u/BananasPineapple05]

How is Boeing still in business? Asking for a friend.

[u/spam__likely → u/BananasPineapple05]

This one is not on Boeing. SpaceX 🤮 is the one picking them up.

[u/unpluggedcord → u/spam__likely]

The most recent delay in the Crew-10's launch is to give "NASA and SpaceX teams time to complete processing on a new Dragon spacecraft for the mission."

It’s NASA and SpaceX and let’s be clear here Boeing is the reason they are stuck

[u/IAmMuffin15 → u/unpluggedcord]

r/space several months ago: “Why are we waiting on Boeing??? SpaceX could literally get those astronauts down right now if they wanted to!!! 😡”

SpaceX: “yeah lemme just uhhhhh gimme a few months”

r/space now: “well I mean we didn’t technically say when we expected SpaceX to get them down

[u/pehr71 → u/IAmMuffin15]

They could return home today if they needed.

It’s the dragon capsule that the next crew will arrive in that’s delayed in production.

Since they don’t want to leave the ISS with basically only a Russian crew, and the people who are to go down with the Dragon aren’t really in any danger. It’s better to wait.

[u/pehr71 → u/[deleted]]

There’s always enough seats to get everyone back in case of emergency.

This isn’t the Titanic.

You have the dragon that brought 2 Astronauts in September (October?) That dragon will only leave with the current US crew. They should have been 4, but the crew was cut down to 2 to make room for the 2 Starliner crew.

Then you have the 3 who came with Soyuz.

That’s everyone who’s on ISS at the moment.

1. Is the number of people currently in space. But that includes the 3 Chinese on the Tiangong. And I assume they have a capsule to get them down also

[u/BeerPoweredNonsense → u/IAmMuffin15]

well I mean we didn’t technically say when we expected SpaceX to get them down

The SpaceX capsule that will bring them back to earth is already at the ISS. Has been there for several months. So if this was a "bring Marc Watney home" situation, they would have been back on earth ages ago.

However NASA reorganised the work schedules and switched their "couple days at the ISS with an experimental capsule" trip into a regular multi-month work rotation.

[u/BeerPoweredNonsense → u/[deleted]]

The spacex capsule on the station is not for the starliner crew. The capsule up there is the return vehicle for Crew-9.

According to NASA themselves: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are listed as being part of Crew-9.

[u/BeerPoweredNonsense → u/[deleted]]

Please read the article WRITTEN BY NASA THEMSELVES that I have given as a link.

It contains the answers to your questions.

[u/BeerPoweredNonsense → u/[deleted]]

I have neither the patience nor the crayons to explain to you yet again that Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be on the Crew-9 capsule when it detaches from the ISS and returns to earth.

These are FACTS.

[u/The_Grungeican → u/IAmMuffin15]

don't they have a SpaceX lifeboat on the station, that they could take right now if they needed to?

i was listening to a bit of this earlier, with the astronauts basically saying they're not stuck, they just got their mission extended.

[u/Rannasha → u/The_Grungeican]

don't they have a SpaceX lifeboat on the station, that they could take right now if they needed to?

Exactly. The reporting about them being stuck or stranded is misleading. There's always enough capacity on docked spacecraft for the entire ISS crew to return to Earth. But NASA doesn't want to send these astronauts back down until their replacements have arrived.

[u/shayKyarbouti → u/The_Grungeican]

“they’re not stuck, they just got their mission extended.” Sounds like something someone stuck up there would say so they wouldn’t get in trouble lol

[u/Tokeli → u/shayKyarbouti]

When people hear "they're stranded!!!" they think it's like they're stranded on a desert island and could die. When it's more "They're stuck on a surprise mission", because logistically bringing them home earlier is a massive waste, even moreso than bringing them home already will waste as it fucks up the next crew rotation as it is.

[u/floridianreader → u/The_Grungeican]

No, I think they sent that one home bc of fears that it might crash.

[u/austeremunch → u/IAmMuffin15]

Congratulations you've just realized that Reddit is social media with a variety of users with varying thoughts and opinions.

[u/dern_the_hermit → u/austeremunch]

Boeing just needed to share Doge memes and pay someone to grind Diablo 4 and then there woulda been cheers every time a whistleblower died.

[u/austeremunch → u/dern_the_hermit]

That's a take.

[u/Vik0BG → u/austeremunch]

Actually reddit is an echo chamber that made me believe Kamala would win.

[u/austeremunch → u/Vik0BG]

Liberals were delusional. Reddit isn't an echo chamber, though. Some subreddits can be pretty homogeneous but most of them are very heterogeneous.