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.

  • 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.