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The need for reporting on this stems from the massive blatant lies coming from the admin backed up by the media parroting the narrative. From NASA on Aug 7, 202
by enragedcacti 2y ago
The need for reporting on this stems from the massive blatant lies coming from the admin backed up by the media parroting the narrative. From NASA on Aug 7, 2024:
> Wilmore and Williams will continue their work formally as part of the Expedition 71/72 crew through February 2025. They will fly home aboard a Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Starliner is expected to depart from the space station and make a safe, controlled autonomous re-entry and landing in early September.
The only change in plan was that Crew 10 was pushed back by a month because of delays at SpaceX and a swap to an existing dragon rather than the new one as planned.
> There's actually a video of Butch, from the station, saying Musk's description was "entirely factual"
His entire career hinges on keeping musk and trump happy
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-decides-to-bring-starliner-spacecraft-back-to-earth-without-crew/ https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-decides-to-bring-star...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-10
- _cs2017_ 2y agoThe fault in the Starliner was known in June 2024 (https://www.space.com/nasa-boeing-starliner-crew-flight-test-mission-delays-webcast https://www.space.com/nasa-boeing-starliner-crew-flight-test...). By August 2024, NASA said that the crew would stay until Feb 2025. That was not the original plan like you claim. See also: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/nasa-astronauts-head-home-spacex-capsule-after-drawn-out-space-station-stay-2025-03-18/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/nasa-astronauts-hea....
- enragedcacti 2y agoIt's mind-numbingly obvious from context that the plan I was referring to was the rescue plan announced in August, not the starliner mission as a whole.
- _cs2017_ 2y agoI see. So the timeline was: 1 Ship broken and delay announced until 2025 2 Musk offers his ship for return before 2025 3 Offer not accepted, 4 Pro-Musk claims the refusal was for political reasons, anti-Musk crowd claims it's not for political reasons but simply to comply with the original plan Is that correct? If so, both groups agree with your comment, right?