An excellent find, Eric.
I'd complain, but I walked right into that one. And then there's that Bo guy...
Hunter
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An excellent find, Eric.
I'd complain, but I walked right into that one. And then there's that Bo guy...
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
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This from one of my aggregators:
Extended Space-cation
Two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station will return aboard a SpaceX vehicle in February, NASA officials announced yesterday. The pair—Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore—arrived aboard a Boeing Starliner in June for an eight-day mission but experienced a helium leak and malfunctioning thrusters endangering their return trip. The Starliner capsule will attempt an uncrewed return in September via autopilot.
The ISS is roughly the size of a five-bedroom house and can accommodate six crew plus visitors (nine are currently aboard the facility). See an overview here.
Both SpaceX and Boeing were awarded funding under a 2014 NASA award aimed at developing private transportation to the ISS. SpaceX has flown nine crewed NASA flights to the ISS since 2020, while Boeing has yet to complete a successful mission despite reportedly going $1.5B over budget.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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I read somewhere that they've come up with a plan to rescue in the spring. If memories not failing me I think it had something to do with space x
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
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The answer to your dilemma is right above.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Starliner coming home---maybe:
I think, from my limited scope, that this is the only prudent option NASA hadAfter 12 weeks in space, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally set to return home from the International Space Station on September 6 — albeit without its two-person crew.
The troubled spacecraft will undock from the orbiting laboratory around 6 p.m. ET, and it will spend about six hours maneuvering closer to home before landing around midnight in New Mexico’s White Sands Space Harbor.
The astronauts who rode aboard Starliner to the space station on June 5, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, will remain on board the orbiting laboratory.
NASA announced on August 24 that experts were wary of gas leaks and issues with the Starliner capsule’s propulsion system, leading the agency to determine the spacecraft is not safe enough to finish its mission with crew on board.
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“All of us really wanted to complete the (Boeing Starliner) test flight with crew, and I think unanimously we’re disappointed not to be able to do that,” Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, said last week. But “you don’t want that disappointment to weigh unhealthily in your decision.”
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 08-30-2024 at 07:33 AM.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Probably not too soon - SpaceX is grounded.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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More to that development.Originally Posted by Mike
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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President-elect Phillbo's preference for parachute landings may be well "grounded" after all......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Well---good news is that it made it home in one piece---the bad news is the crew wasn't with it
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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On a more positive side.. just think of all the $$$ that we saved by outsourcing the space shuttle replacement..
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Yes, BUT I'm not sure that would be the biggest thought in my mind as I was strapping my ass to a Boeing vehicle.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
well at least the door stayed on
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