SpaceX to the rescue?

Originally set to return in mid-June, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be on the station until February, 2025.

During a press conference today, NASA representatives confirmed they have a contingency plan to bring astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams home from the International Space Station (ISS) early next year. If they’re unable to leave sooner aboard the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that brought them there

Tests conducted at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility pointed to deformed Teflon seals being a potential cause of the Starliner’s thrusters failing, but the agency isn’t expected to make a final decision on whether or not Williams and Wilmore will return using Boeing’s spacecraft until mid-August.

  • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I take it you don’t recycle then eh? Paper and cans just aren’t worth your time.

    It’s all the corporations fault, we’re totally not complicit in the degradation process as well.

    And y’all call me deluded…

    • exanime@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I do recycle and do what I can… I just hold no delusions that I’ll save the planet by doing that while corporations literally pollute per day 100x over what I can recycle in a lifetime.

      If 1000 of us were to die tomorrow, dropping out pollution to zero, I would not make up for a single Kardashian private flight to spare her from 40 mins traffic

      • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
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        3 months ago

        But you and me and sunzu up there and the rest of us combined on this thread do make a difference. You matter.

        Don’t allow perfect to be the enemy of the good.

        • exanime@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Which is why I do recycle and do other stuff… But we cannot reverse the damage, we cannot even slow it down by ourselves. We must be realistic about that

          It’s like washing your hands after pooping, it’s not going to cure cancer but it definitely would prevent some bouts of illness for yourself and others

          • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
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            3 months ago

            Or perhaps it’s like wastewater treatment, where we collectively realized we all poop and somehow we need to clean up the waste to still have clean water.