Sunday, March 09, 2025

For NASA astronauts, a landing date at last

The Boeing Starliner astronauts, who launched on the spacecraft's Crewed Flight Test on June 5, have been living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) ever since their capsule returned to Earth without them. On Friday (March 7), NASA cleared a relief crew to launch on SpaceX Dragon next week, clearing the way for their long-awaited return to Earth.

Posted by REDIAL at 05:08 PM | 4 COMMENTS | permalink

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The quartet had originally been slated to fly on a brand-new Crew Dragon being built by SpaceX for the mission. Delays in its construction due to battery issues, however, led NASA to initially postpone the launch to "late March," then ultimately to swap the mission's spacecraft to an already flight-proven Dragon. Now, instead of a shiny, new, yet-to-be-named Dragon, Crew-10 will launch aboard the veteran capsule Endurance, a spacecraft that's already flown three NASA crews to the space station and back.

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That's like relying on a Yugo to get you home. Just sayin

#1 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-03-09 05:26 PM

That's like relying on a Yugo to get you home.

At least it works. The new one will have to wait.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-09 05:28 PM

At least it works. The new one will have to wait.

#2 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Are you sure about that? I wouldn't trust anything apartheid Elmo built.

#3 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-03-09 07:04 PM

Are you sure about that? I wouldn't trust anything apartheid Elmo built.

This flight was scheduled some time last November. They just gave up on the new capsule and went back to the old one to save a couple of weeks so they can claim it is a "Rescue!!!".

And I don't think Lord Commander Elon actually builds anything... he just buys people that do.

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-09 07:43 PM

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