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Think of how much worse it will be for those astronauts if Trump is elected
News breaks when he and the media are on the tarmac waiting to get on Air Force One.
“Wha?” He cones his ear with his hand. “The Boeing Spaceship blew up and the astronauts died? That’s too bad. But it happens. Rocket fuel is dangerous. Very dangerous…” And then he tells a bizarre two minute story about “my uncle at MIT - the physicist who made airliner planes”. For a few days lib media fulminates that he didn’t give proper respect to the deceased astronauts who Lawrence O’Donnell calls “explorer heroes for humankind”.
“They just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. They led an amazing life. What else can you say. Whether you agreed or not, they were amazing astronauts who led amazing lives. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.”
They’re Boeing to die!
(Actually probably not, Space X, Russia, or China will have to send something up to rescue them, and I don’t think Musk has a capsule ready for at least another 2 months.)
For Boeing about to rock, we salute you
If there’s any company that would kill a bunch of astronauts through sheer incompetence during an election year and at a time when the US is looking weak on the national stage, I’d definitely put money on Boeing.
Possible putler agents?
Boeing is a SeeSeePee bot!
So obviously Bryce Dallas Howard directs the movie about this. Who stars? Whose the modern Tom Hanks, Bill Hader?
Chet Hanks
Huston…BIG UP THE WHOLE ISLAND
Chris Evans as Joe Biden
Bill hader is much closer to a gary kinese or bill paxton than hanks imo
Really? Maybe I haven’t seen him in enough, but I’ve never known him to have that sinese/paxton sexy-weasel quality.
Who? The Big Guy of course…
What happens when time runs out? Do they just leave them there to die?
No, they’ll just undock it and send it down unmanned, replacing it with an unmanned Dragon or Soyuz or something. This isn’t any real emergency, it’s just more bad news piling into Boeing at a time when they can’t seem to do anything right
There is also a SpaceX dragon capsule currently docked to the ISS. That seats four. 8 people in space on the ISS right now. Maybe there’s enough space with suits on, but I can’t imagine there’s much leg room for that road trip.
The Dragon in question is kitted for 3. There’s also an emergency evac capsule (Still a Soyuz I think EDIT: Yes, Soyuz MS-25!). But that’s only another 2-3 and having US astronauts brought back by Roscosmos would be…embarassing.
Have them touch down and recovered by a Russian crew, give them a massive welcome home and “mission accomplished” parade in Moscow before returning them to the U.S.
the USSR would definitely have done this, shame russia isnt cool anymore
Russia will do it just to flex
The article says the 45 day window is due to fuel limitations with Starliner, so at that point I’d imagine they’d un-dock it and de-orbit without crew. Regardless they wouldn’t leave the astronauts to die (I hope) and would mount a rescue mission.
wow, just an idea here - but maybe, just maybe, the space program shouldn’t have been privatizedYou think Biden is gonna prioritize this lol
The Shinra rocket from Final Fantasy VII had better build quality and their society was a techno dystopia steampunk thingy.
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Basically every single thing the Soviets ever built
OF FUCKING COURSE LMAOOOO
