[HN Gopher] SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts...
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       SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck
       on the ISS
        
       Author : JumpCrisscross
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-09-28 22:11 UTC (49 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (apnews.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (apnews.com)
        
       | elintknower wrote:
       | Kind of hilarious the lengths they're going to in order to not
       | give credit to elon / space x.
       | 
       | Boeing / current admin continues to be a complete joke.
        
         | schiffern wrote:
         | SpaceX is the first word of both the headline and article?
         | 
         | Personally I was glad they omitted the obligatory clickbait
         | mention of his name, but yeah it is a little conspicuous how
         | they only show this restraint on the _good_ news...
        
       | dotnet00 wrote:
       | Man the reporting on this ordeal has been so awful and so
       | representative of how media misleads the public into thinking
       | things are worse than they actually are.
       | 
       | It isn't a rescue mission, it's a regular crew rotation mission
       | with modifications to account for the extra crew left on the
       | station, and those crew are 'stuck' only in the sense that
       | they're expected to stay there as part of their duties and it
       | would be unnecessarily disruptive to operations to bring them
       | back early. Starliner was still deemed to be safe enough to be
       | the emergency escape option while it was docked, then the
       | emergency escape option became seats setup in the cargo portion
       | of the Crew-8 capsule.
        
         | jiggawatts wrote:
         | This is a matter of perspective. The mission is what you call
         | it.
         | 
         | Sure, it's not a "rescue", it's just an "unplanned itinerary
         | change to another vessel".
         | 
         | Also, they're not "marooned", they're "getting an extended work
         | opportunity".
        
           | dotnet00 wrote:
           | "Rescue" conveys a much more negative situation than
           | "unplanned itinerary change where the astronauts are safe and
           | which they are happy about because they get to spend more
           | time in space".
        
           | tw04 wrote:
           | So if you ride a ferry on a regular basis (which I'm sure at
           | least a handful of HN folks do) - if that ferry breaks down
           | before the return trip, when you catch the next ferry is that
           | a "rescue mission", or are you just catching the next ferry?
           | Replace ferry with bus, car, taxi, airplane, your
           | transportation mode of choice.
           | 
           | Calling this a rescue is, to OPs point, just dramatizing the
           | situation for clicks. In pretty much any other circumstance,
           | it wouldn't even make the news.
        
       | neverrroot wrote:
       | Thank you Elon!
        
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