[HN Gopher] Boeing rejects claims NASA crew 'stranded' by spacec...
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       Boeing rejects claims NASA crew 'stranded' by spacecraft
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-06-27 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/P6l8e
        
       | downrightmike wrote:
       | If they can't come back, that's pretty much the definition of
       | stranded.
        
         | teractiveodular wrote:
         | They're not stranded then, because they can come back with
         | other spacecraft.
        
           | rst wrote:
           | ? There's no other spacecraft there now with spare seats.
           | NASA could arrange to send a Dragon up, but at a pretty
           | fearsome cost. (Crew dragon missions are something like $300
           | million. There's one scheduled, and paid for, to launch
           | fairly soon, but with no spare capacity -- if they wanted to
           | use that for Butch and Suni's ride down, they'd need to bump
           | two of the currently scheduled crew for that mission off.)
        
             | DoesntMatter22 wrote:
             | Can't they send up one of the space x ones?
        
               | flutas wrote:
               | Dragon is SpaceX.
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               | https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/
        
             | neverokay wrote:
             | _There 's one scheduled, and paid for, to launch fairly
             | soon, but with no spare capacity_
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             | Stupid question of the day, can we not just force jam a
             | bunch of astronauts into it?
        
               | Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote:
               | The police complain if you have people riding on your lap
               | in a car. Imagine what NASA thinks of that for a space
               | pod.
        
         | smallerize wrote:
         | They're not stranded. Just today, they took shelter in the
         | Starliner in case something went catastrophically wrong with
         | the satellite debris the station passed through. They were
         | ready to go home on it immediately. They are already cleared to
         | leave on Starliner in an emergency. But since there is no
         | emergency, they are continuing to look at the thruster data.
        
       | metabagel wrote:
       | This makes sense:
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       | > However, it was decided to spend more time assessing the
       | causes, as they affected the service module which would not
       | return to earth. This data would be lost on return so "we are
       | taking time to understand the issues further," Boeing said.
        
         | hdhshdhshdjd wrote:
         | Actually that doesn't make sense to me - why would the
         | telemetry vanish? I get wanting more data, but I don't
         | understand how it would be lost.
        
           | throwawaymaths wrote:
           | They want more telemetry events before telemetry events stop
           | due to reentry
        
       | underseacables wrote:
       | I don't think we have enough information to say whether or not
       | the crew is stranded, but I think we DO have enough information
       | to be suspicious of anything that Boeing says.
        
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