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They will reconfigure Crew 8 for six occupants for emergency evacuation.
by ripjaygn 2y ago
They will reconfigure Crew 8 for six occupants for emergency evacuation.
- belter 2y agoSo they don't have an evacuation option right now? I assumed the problem was the spacesuits are not compatible with SpaceX requirements? https://www.adastraspace.com/p/boeing-spacex-spacesuits-compatible https://www.adastraspace.com/p/boeing-spacex-spacesuits-comp...
- echoangle 2y agoThe evacuation option right now is Starliner
- dylan604 2y agoI'm guessing if the ISS was no longer able to sustain life support, Starliner would be used. Guaranteed loss of life by staying on ISS or having an unknown <100% chance of surviving using Starliner, of course it will be chanced. I'm not really sure what point your question is attempting to get at
- belter 2y agoThey don't have a way to come back to Earth right now on a Spaceship cleared for human flight.
- NavinF 2y agoI'm sure the astronauts would much prefer to have a Dragon available, but I don't think NASA's "cleared for human flight" means much. After all, 4% (14/355) of all the astronauts that flew on the space shuttle died when their vehicles exploded.
- Jtsummers 2y agoStarliner is the evacuation option right now. It's a risky one, but until Crew-8 is reconfigured their only option.
- nine_k 2y agoISS is huge, and is very unlikely to fail all at once. In a case of a catastrophic failure, they could stay in a less affected part of the station. All life-critical systems on spacecraft are duplicated and triplicated. With the current SpaceX launch capabilities, a rescue Crew Dragon could arrive within days if not hours.
- DiggyJohnson 2y agoThey would use Starliner, which was announced a few weeks ago.
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