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Even if up for 8 months – and returning to a US with a different President, perhaps even a different party-of-the-President, they'll not match the experience of
by gojomo 2y ago
Even if up for 8 months – and returning to a US with a different President, perhaps even a different party-of-the-President, they'll not match the experience of Sergei Krikalev – who traveled to the space station Mir for the USSR, & was for a while stuck there when the USSR dissolved, only returning 311 days later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalev
He later became the 1st cosmonaut to fly on the US Space Shuttle:
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/people/p-c-krikalev.htm https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/p...
- spoonfeeder006 2y agoThat would be an absolute dream for me
- quakeguy 2y agoMay i ask why?
- spoonfeeder006 2y ago[flagged]
- aekotra 2y ago[flagged]
- amy-petrik-214 2y agohe sure was asking that, and the reply sure was, "none of your business"
- woleium 2y ago[flagged]
- Reason077 2y agoSo, is that what you wrote on your NASA astronaut training application?
- afro88 2y ago"Because I like solitude and find space and weightlessness fascinating" is also a fine response (my response to why I would also find 8 months in space something I could embrace). The "why" of the GP was a personal question, and can just be answered with the thoughts and feelings that led you to say what you did.
- samplatt 2y agoThis is what you guys are talking about when you say you see a lot of ChatGPT-made comments, right?
- FriedPickles 2y agoSo you think it's bot that's intentionally adding spelling mistakes? I think it's more likely a human in an altered mental state.
- justinclift 2y ago> they'll not match the experience of Sergei Krikalev Bear in mind that your statement is very "Hold my beer..." and we're talking about Boeing here. ;) So it's possible, though unlikely, some chain of events could occur so the Starliner astronauts beat Sergei Krikalev's record.
- simiones 2y agoStill very unlikely that they'd come back to a, say, Independent Republic of Florida instead of the USA they left from, but hey, it's been a crazy couple of years.
- TheOtherHobbes 2y agoIf they wait for a few more years it's going to be the Floridian Archipelago.
- moomin 2y agoGiven Boeing's track record, it's possible they'll return to be greeted by apes wearing suits.
- schneehertz 2y agoWhat a terrible comparison; I believe that the current state of America has not yet fallen to the level it was at before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- apexalpha 2y agoI think he was comparing the experience by the astronauts,not the state of the countries.
- akira2501 2y ago> He later became the 1st cosmonaut to fly on the US Space Shuttle: Part of the reason NASA selected him is because he worked on the Soviet Buran project for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)