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NASA will decide Saturday if Boeing's new capsule is safe enough to fly 2 astronauts back from space

NASA said Thursday it will decide this weekend whether Boeing’s new capsule is safe enough to return two astronauts from the International Space Station, where they’ve been waiting since June.

Administrator Bill Nelson and other top officials will meet Saturday. An announcement is expected from Houston once the meeting ends.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner on June 5. The test flight quickly encountered thruster failures and helium leaks so serious that NASA kept the capsule parked at the station as engineers debated what to do.

SpaceX could retrieve the astronauts, but that would keep them up there until next February. They were supposed to return after a week or so at the station.

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themeatbridge , (edited )

That’s why you always pack more underwear than you think you will need.

Come to think of it, how do astronauts do laundry?

Edit: I looked it up. They don’t. Dirty laundry is ejected into space to burn up on re-entry. So these poor travelers probably did not pack for an 8 month trip.

superkret ,

This is a great idea for a porn plot: several young, fit people in an enclosed space with nothing to do, cause they finished their assigned tasks weeks ago. Lots of positions that aren’t physically possible in earths gravity.
And they just ejected their last set of clothes.

Now I just need funding to film it in zero G.

worldwidewave ,

Now I just need funding to film it in zero G.

I don’t wanna spoil things, but if you’re looking for floating strange liquids, maybe check out the new Alien movie.

Tujio ,

Vague memory from years ago, but I think that The Uranus Experiment 2 has a zero-g moneyshot.

Zron ,

Unfortunately, erections probably don’t work that well in zero G, although NASA has been neglectful in testing this thoroughly.

JWBananas ,
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That makes zero sense

girlfreddy OP ,
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Mashable has answered the question.

mashable.com/…/nasa-how-to-have-sex-in-space

girlfreddy OP ,
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“This meant Wilmore and Williams were forced to ration their clean clothes. Thankfully, a resupply mission earlier this month gave them a few extra pairs of scrubs.” Source

mozz ,
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I think the astronauts should decide.

What is gained by taking the responsibility away from them, and handing it to some other person? I could maybe see it if I trusted that other person to be more qualified, but if they are NASA administration, then I don’t.

catloaf ,

Good thing the article specifies “engineers” then

mozz ,
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Incorrect

Administrator Bill Nelson and other top officials will meet Saturday. An announcement is expected from Houston once the meeting ends.

Engineers are evaluating a new computer model for the Starliner thrusters and how they might perform as the capsule descends out of orbit for a touchdown in the U.S. Western desert. The results, including updated risk analyses, will factor into the final decision, NASA said.

The article makes a specific point about “top officials” being the ones at the meeting, and makes a distinction between those engineers and “NASA” who is the one making the decision.

Evotech ,

There are many astronauts in the ground in nasa too, and people who actually design and build spaceships

mozz ,
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How many of them were involved in overriding the engineers as regarded launching the Challenger?

(I would recommend "Riding Rockets" as a pretty good book to read for a general overview of the safety culture in NASA management and the reasons I don't trust them to make this decision. Honestly, for all I know, things have changed radically since then -- but given that NASA management were the ones that sent them up on a Boeing spacecraft in the first place when years ago I was already able to see that Boeing was no longer capable of doing safe engineering of even civilian commercial air travel, I kind of doubt it.)

The_Picard_Maneuver ,
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Imagine how worried their families must be this whole time. I can’t imagine “my family member has been stuck in space for months” is a type of stress that many people would relate to.

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