Astronauts actually get stuck in space all the time – Spacecraft trouble, weather and geopolitics have stranded astronauts since at least the ‘70s
Astronauts actually get stuck in space all the time – Spacecraft trouble, weather and geopolitics have stranded astronauts since at least the ‘70s
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Oh yes, Sergei Krikalev was one cosmonaut stuck on Mir during the fall of the USSR. Worked with him when he was part of ISS Expedition 1 with Bill Shepard and Yuri Gidzenko. Great guys. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalev?wprov=sfti1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalev?wprov=sfti1)
Boeing’s PR department must be working overtime trying to spin all these stories into something normal and accepted.
How many times did the return craft get completely FUBARed how’d it turn out?
* The astronauts are absolutely **not** stranded, and you’re an idiot
* The astronauts are *not* stranded, and you’re being an alarmist, stop it
* The astronauts are *not* stranded, we’re just collecting even MORE data before a decision
* Listen, astronauts being stranded isn’t unusual at all, stop being weird **(CURRENT STEP)**
* Ok, so the Starliner crew is coming back on Dragon, big deal, don’t we all want what’s best for *them?*
FFS.
“Bad news….weather over the landing site will mean you can’t come back yet.” Roger that Houston what’s the anticipated length of delay? “Oh about 8 months”
But they don’t often get “stuck” in space because they were shoved up there on an obviously not fit-for-purpose spacecraft.
Starliner does **not** do what it says on the outside of the can. It is not safe in its present condition/stage of development. And someone at Boeing knew/suspected that and sent them anyway.
Being in space is cool and all, but imagine if this was a case of sending miners down a mine and then they’re stuck there until possibly next year before they could come back to their lives and world.
Boeing PR team you guys arent doing a very good job
>stranded astronauts since at least the ‘70s
That’s at least 45 years. That’s a long time to be stranded in space.
It’s not a bad thing if it happens often – that’s the rationale?
Is Boeing’s PR department letting the summer intern write articles?
“Oh it’s actually totally normal!”
-Boeing sponsored article
Another plant to normalize the whole mess and salvage NASA and Boeing’s reputation. Articles like these started popping up right after wednesay’s conference call
They can also get stuck _inside_ the spacecraft, floating, unable to reach any handholds. For example:
https://youtu.be/89gjHntYMY4?si=cgQq5wrFV2EeWX4q?t=10s
That’s what I initially thought of, reading the first line of the title
How do I block domains from showing up on my feed?
This feels like Boeing’s PR team trying to do damage control.
I won’t be surprised if they even said that astronauts actually get killed all the time.
Even in columbia disaster, Nasa knew before hand that one of the heat shield has been compromised and they won’t survive re entry, yet they decided to not tell the astronauts until the last moments, thinking that a sudden death would be a peaceful one.
The psychology of that must be nightmarish. I mean, you *can’t* go anywhere. There’s a slim but existent chance you won’t come back.