Stranded on the ISS possibly till next year.

[Gingerbread Demon]

They are having problems with Starliner.

ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says

Two astronauts who left Earth in June remain at International Space Station after issues with Boeing’s Starliner capsule

www.theguardian.com

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Crazy situation… but really, there could be worse places to be ‘stuck’.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Crazy situation… but really, there could be worse places to be ‘stuck’.

Cheers,
-CM-

Uuum no. Malfunctions happen and what if the life support fails or supplies can't be sent up?

Not a safe place to be stranded

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Uuum no. Malfunctions happen and what if the life support fails or supplies can't be sent up?

Not a safe place to be stranded

True, but still… I’d rather take my chances there than here on Earth at the moment. But that’s just my two and a half cents.

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

True, but still… I’d rather take my chances there than here on Earth at the moment. But that’s just my two and a half cents.

Cheers,
-CM-

That's fair enough. Yes things on earth are pretty shitty right now, shrug but what can you do?

 

[Non Sync]

They're in a pretty safe situation right now onboard the ISS. There is always extra supplies and supply missions can still occur. They can always come back via either Space X Dragon or Soviet Soyuz.

The biggest hang up right now is the Starliner can only be undocked manually. Boeing needs to come up with a software fix in order to undock if it will be unmanned.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

They're in a pretty safe situation right now onboard the ISS. There is always extra supplies and supply missions can still occur. They can always come back via either Space X Dragon or Soviet Soyuz.

The biggest hang up right now is the Starliner can only be undocked manually. Boeing needs to come up with a software fix in order to undock if it will be unmanned.

They just talked about this again on the news.

According to the news piece it is helium leaks that they are having problems with for the vehicle to pick them up and bring them back to earth.

 

[Non Sync]

I think they may still be talking about the Starliner's leaks. Last I heard was they were going to send only 2 up on the next Space X flight instead of 4.

 

[Non Sync]

NASA made the call today the the Starliner crew will return on a SpaceX flight next February.

The Starliner will return empty sometime in the next couple of weeks.

 

[Starbrow]

I feel like this is a plot for a movie:

2 astronauts accidently get stranded on space station, just to watch Humanity go extinct due to Nuclear Conflict, becoming the last 2 surviving humans.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I feel like this is a plot for a movie:

2 astronauts accidently get stranded on space station, just to watch Humanity go extinct due to Nuclear Conflict, becoming the last 2 surviving humans.

Let's throw in a twist. They can't reproduce

 

[Non Sync]

I feel like this is a plot for a movie:

2 astronauts accidently get stranded on space station, just to watch Humanity go extinct due to Nuclear Conflict, becoming the last 2 surviving humans.

Check out Earthwreck! by Thomas Scortia (1974). Nuclear and biological war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable with the sole survivors on separate American and Russian space stations. The American station has only one woman and the Russian has several...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Check out Earthwreck! by Thomas Scortia (1974). Nuclear and biological war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable with the sole survivors on separate American and Russian space stations. The American station has only one woman and the Russian has several...

Well with no government on Earth left it is up to them to team up.

Ok so how did the book deal with it?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

According to the news just now looks like February is the time they will be coming home.

But the return trip will be via a SpaceX ship

 

[Colonel Midnight]

According to the news just now looks like February is the time they will be coming home.

But the return trip will be via a SpaceX ship

Did they solve the space suit compatibility issue? There was an article yesterday (although it’s not new, been known about for a few weeks, apparently) that the Boeing space suits are incompatible with the SpaceX design.

What a clusterfark, in short. It’s practically straight out of Apollo 13…

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Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Non Sync]

Well with no government on Earth left it is up to them to team up.

Ok so how did the book desl with it?

There was some among the two groups there were perfectly willing to fight it out but ultimately decided cooperation was required.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

There was some among the two groups there were perfectly willing to fight it out but ultimately decided cooperation was required.

Good thing brains won out. Oh and thanks reading your reply I spotted my typo and fixed it.

 

[David cgc]

Did they solve the space suit compatibility issue? There was an article yesterday (although it’s not new, been known about for a few weeks, apparently) that the Boeing space suits are incompatible with the SpaceX design.

It's not the kind of thing you can solve, the flight suits are essentially a part of the ship. It'd be like trying to swap the door from a Dragon to a Starliner. It could be worse, the Soyuz seats are custom-molded for each crewmember.

Procedure is that everyone on the ISS has to have a way to get off the ISS, and the new Dragon can't dock until the Starliner has left, and they can't try to pull an Indiana-Jones-with-the-idol and have one dock immediately after the other leaves. So they'll be reconfiguring the Dragon that's already there to fit two extra (unsuited) astronauts before they let send the Starliner to Earth, just in case there's an emergency before the next Dragon is sent up. The suits aren't strictly required, the ships are pressurized, but reentry is a dangerous operation, so it's prudent to have an extra layer of air around you just in case. But "safe" is relative, and the only way everyone would need to evacuate the ISS is if something really catastrophic happened, in which case given the choice between taking the Dragon without a flight suit and staying on the ISS, no one is going to stay on the ISS, prudence be damned.

Swapna Krishna's Ad Astra has an article/video on the whole thing.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Why didn't both companies you know go for universal fittings?

 

[publiusr]

We were perhaps less risk averse in the past

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