Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. Here’s what’s at stake | CNN
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Two NASA test pilots helming the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft are in a tentative position as mission teams scramble to learn more about issues that plagued the first leg of the journey.
  • SadArtemis
    24·
    6 days ago

    Honestly, when and if Russia leaves the ISS, I hope the whole thing goes down in flames (or floats off to oblivion). Actively imperialist nations (ie. the other ISS participants- basically the “league of colonial crackers+Japan”) have no place in space.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      22·
      6 days ago

      Imagine the west not even having a space station anymore while Russia and China go on to build moon bases.

    • knfrmityEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      As far as I know, NASA has two current plans. Either sell the ISS to some billionaire, or deorbit it and drop it into the ocean. Both are really sad conclusions to an important scientific and engineering project.

      The funny thing is, the league of colonial crackers don’t have the capability to deorbit the ISS. Right now only the Russian Progress vehicle can significantly modify the orbit of the ISS. If it’s not deorbited quickly and precisely on purpose, it’ll deorbit on its own in an uncontrolled manner, with a slight risk of dropping debris on inhabited land.

  • YaksDC@lemm.ee
    17·
    6 days ago

    Why would anyone purposefully fly on anything Boeing has made recently?

  • stasis
    15·
    6 days ago

    this is on msm but not china landing on the moon?

  • OrnluWolfjarl
    14·
    6 days ago

    Ah yes, the capitalists do space so much better than communists. Yeah.