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? There's no other spacecraft there now with spare seats. NASA could arrange to send a Dragon up, but at a pretty fearsome cost. (Crew dragon missions are some
by rst 2y ago
? There's no other spacecraft there now with spare seats. NASA could arrange to send a Dragon up, but at a pretty fearsome cost. (Crew dragon missions are something like $300 million. There's one scheduled, and paid for, to launch fairly soon, but with no spare capacity -- if they wanted to use that for Butch and Suni's ride down, they'd need to bump two of the currently scheduled crew for that mission off.)
- DoesntMatter22 2y agoCan't they send up one of the space x ones?
- flutas 2y agoDragon is SpaceX. https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/ https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/dragon/
- neverokay 2y agoThere's one scheduled, and paid for, to launch fairly soon, but with no spare capacity Stupid question of the day, can we not just force jam a bunch of astronauts into it?
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y agoThe police complain if you have people riding on your lap in a car. Imagine what NASA thinks of that for a space pod.
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- dessimus 2y agoThere's no way the NASA flight director wants to deal with the paperwork for elevated vital data of those whose laps were occupied: "Sir, the whole craft was vibrating, not to mention these flight suits are ...restricting..."
- falcolas 2y agoWeight is probably a big one. Slowing things down requires energy (or the dispersion of energy) and that amount of energy is directly related to the weight. Plus breathing gases, waste management, and any other required consumables.
- aejm 2y agoYes absolutely. SpaceX Dragon is cleared to seat up to, I believe, four extra astronauts in an emergency.
- 6nf 2y agoIsn't there a Dragon docked at the ISS right now?