Privatising space exploration was a mistake
Your article is from June. Let's see if there's been any updates since...
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/yes-nasa-really-could-bring-starliners-astronauts-back-on-crew-dragon/
Oh, it's increasingly looking like SpaceX will bail the astronauts out and bring them home. Boeing is a fucking failure of a company. That it's so intertwined with the criminality of the American state is just
Yeah, you know you suck when the dude who built the Cybertruck has to save you
The big difference between SpaceX and Tesla is that SpaceX has to perform to NASA technical and safety requirements. They can't just shit out crap hardware because the asshole-in-chief wanted to play automotive engineer. SpaceX has to make stuff that actually works. It also helps that there's someone competent running things day-to-day there instead of the aforementioned asshole-in-chief.
The Dragon capsule had to successfully complete both an in flight abort test and several uncrewed trips to the ISS before NASA trusted it to carry astronauts, the Starliner skipped both.
I disagree. Privatizing space exploration is a great idea, because it keeps countries that would privatize space exploration from making any meaningful progress in the realm of space exploration
I find it weird this story hasn't been getting more media attention, you think two astronauts being stranded in space would be BIG news but everyone is just sharing coconut memes.
They've never been "stranded" it was just who was going to bring them back that was in question. The media got called out on using that for sensationalist headlines at one point and I think that's when they dropped it.
Yeah, if my car breaks down in the parking lot at work, I'm not stranded, I just have to get someone to give me a ride home.
just call china or russia for help, leave spaceflights to the experts
Privatising space exploration was a mistake
No, with all seriousness it's not privatising enough of it in capitalist countries that is dangerous. Private space exploration without govt funds would be unprofitable and therefore not exist, leaving the space for communists.
Boeing released a statement outlining how the mission hasn't been a complete failure and mission objectives are still being completed:
"We'll send them cheesy movies, the worst we can find, they'll have to sit and watch them all and we'll monitor their minds. Now keep in mind they can't control when the movies begin or end, because we cut those corners too and needs parts we didn't send."
stays winning
