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Astronauts, first and foremost, want to fly. They have been known to hush up health issues, safety issues, vehicle issues if it gets them closer to flying. I'm

Astronauts, first and foremost, want to fly. They have been known to hush up health issues, safety issues, vehicle issues if it gets them closer to flying. I'm guessing Butch and Suni are having the time of their lives watching the surface of the Earth fly by outside the window. They will chomp at the bit to manually fly a Starliner home good valves or no just to show their colleagues how awesome they are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly:_NASA_and_the_Crisis_Aboard_Mir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly:_NASA_and_the_Crisis...

lesuorac 2y ago
I dunno, they cover up health issues and etc _to get into space_. They're in space now, might as well drag it out as long as they can.
ClumsyPilot 2y ago
> health issues, safety issues, vehicle issues if it gets them closer to flying I would take a risk driving experimental motorbike, would not risk driving a normal motorbike on a highway where mechanic checking it was sloppy and stupid. Even if risks were, hypothetically identical, risk A is honourable, risk 2 is someone’s incompetence or greed.
Intralexical 2y ago
They're also perfectly eager to cuss out bureaucrats who get them killed by forcing them to fly known faulty vehicles. > One report describes the crew as "infuriated" that Mission Control Center seemed unconcerned. When Gibson saw the damage he thought to himself, "We are going to die"; he and others did not believe that the shuttle would survive reentry. Gibson advised the crew to relax because "No use dying all tensed-up", he said, but if instruments indicated that the shuttle was disintegrating, Gibson planned to "tell mission control what I thought of their analysis" in the remaining seconds before his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27#Tile_damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27#Tile_damage So, you know, it's one thing to be a badass cowboy with the risks inherent to exploration. But maybe don't romanticize the political and technical incompetence in this particular situation.

lesuorac 2y ago

I dunno, they cover up health issues and etc _to get into space_. They're in space now, might as well drag it out as long as they can.

ClumsyPilot 2y ago

> health issues, safety issues, vehicle issues if it gets them closer to flying I would take a risk driving experimental motorbike, would not risk driving a normal motorbike on a highway where mechanic checking it was sloppy and stupid. Even if risks were, hypothetically identical, risk A is honourable, risk 2 is someone’s incompetence or greed.

Intralexical 2y ago

They're also perfectly eager to cuss out bureaucrats who get them killed by forcing them to fly known faulty vehicles. > One report describes the crew as "infuriated" that Mission Control Center seemed unconcerned. When Gibson saw the damage he thought to himself, "We are going to die"; he and others did not believe that the shuttle would survive reentry. Gibson advised the crew to relax because "No use dying all tensed-up", he said, but if instruments indicated that the shuttle was disintegrating, Gibson planned to "tell mission control what I thought of their analysis" in the remaining seconds before his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27#Tile_damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27#Tile_damage So, you know, it's one thing to be a badass cowboy with the risks inherent to exploration. But maybe don't romanticize the political and technical incompetence in this particular situation.