They are still waiting on their delivery of lemon-soaked paper napkins. Any day now.
Some reporters began calling the astronauts “stranded” or “stuck” on the ISS. NASA and Boeing stress, however, that this couldn’t be further from the truth.
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-nasa-astronauts-not-stranded-space
They’re pining for the fjords.
Its all about phrasing. They are just having an extended layover because their flight is delayed. Boeing also provides courtesy, in-flight door removal.
They are boeinged on the ISS.
The glory of privatization on full display.
Sometimes I look up at the sky at night, think of these two, and laugh.
I’m sure they’re just thrilled. We’re probably going to learn all kinds of things about what happens to a human during an extended spaceflight from their ruined bodies.
The radiation exposure in space is insane. Their health did certainly going to be noticeable.
I mean the article says that they will have only been up there for 10 months, and most space station missions last 6 months up to a year, so we have plenty of other examples of people who have been up there as long or longer.
60 years of spaceflight and we can still barely get to orbit.
God we’re shit at this, aren’t we?
To be fair, it’s incredibly hard to get into orbit, and it’s relatively easy to get anywhere from there. The fact we can get into orbit pretty safely, reliably, and consistently while struggling to do stuff that’s so much easier well is impressive.
I mean, Boeing barely does, we have also shot countless things everywhere in the solar system… Heck, even Starship reached a stable orbit in like the 3rd test flight or so (practically, and throttled shortly before, so the thing returns). It’s hard, but far from impossible with a competent team and strict management
Okay but tbf starship didnt have a payload, unless you count the banana.
a three hour tour. a three hour tour.
I hope they’re calling each other Gilligan and Skipper.
THEY’RE STILL UP THERE?!
Holy shit, so much has happened in this country and the world at large, I completely forgot this entire story was happening jesus christ almighty
To be fair, they know the state of the world; I’d probably choose to stay in space.
I thought they had already come down…
Why didn’t Boeing have a contingency plan for this? Not a lot of forward thinking going on there.
it’s not like the astronauts are in any danger
Just delayed by 1 year. Also, living in space does take a toll on your body.
And there’s the psychological toll as well.
This has to be a joke
Christ. You think president Musk will send a SpaceX solution up there or count his billions?
Probably both.
He’ll just funnel $$ to his private company using cuts to social services for poor people
My brain refuses to accept that this image is not upside down, even if I flip it, it’s upside down.
“I know what it feels like to be upside down from here.” -Atom and His Package
Everything is always upside-down and always right side up in space. Simultaneously!
The enemy’s gate is down.
How do they get haircuts up there?
…but wait, there’s more!
Used one of those for a long time, when the blades start to dull, it becomes the most painful haircut you can imagine
I wonder- Are people here still going to argue that they’re definitely happier to be up there than on the ground with their partners and kids when they thought they were going to see them again in 8 days because they’re in space!!!
Their DNA? To shreds, you say.
