NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sure another private interest won’t fuck this up. Especially one run by the king of fucking things up.

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  • Bimfred@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Crew Dragon has been solely responsible for the US side of ISS rotations for four years, without incident. 8 successful missions, not counting the privately funded trips. Cargo Dragon has been doing resupply missions since 2012.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cool story… How many trips did that billionaire submarine go on before it collapsed?

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  • assembly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s sad that the two options are SpaceX and Boeing. Neither Musk nor Boeing inspire confidence in safety. NASA should have just developed their own crewed capsule.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “BuT tHaT’s a WaStE of OuR tAx dAlLaRs! We hAve ProBleMs DowN hErE oN EaRth!” Etc., etc., etc.

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  • Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Take solace in the fact that musk has little to do with the running of SpaceX anymore

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With any luck he’ll have to sell shares to keep Twitter afloat.

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• Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boring?

  The “has to release from the inside” capsule from an American oligarch Monopoly company that only got the contract because it begged the government to come up with a way to make more money for their stock prices, that they assumed was their contract so hard they squandered millions of the budget and was months off schedule, is barely attached to a space station and the day will now have to be saved by the guy who runs a nazi apologist website we all caller “shitter”…

  Is boring??

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah. Real world villainy is banal to the point of desperation. Its themes are as repetitive and predictive as they are abhorrent and repulsive.

    In contrast, fictional dystopias tend to be at least somewhat interesting, or they don’t get an audience.

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  • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, I’m so desensitized to this stuff that it is becoming hackneyed lol

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How is this either boring or dystopian? I don’t understand how it fits this sub.

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  • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We privatized space travel, so now corner-cutting megacorp get to make sloppy decisions that risk people’s lives. Now, we have hard proof that it doesn’t matter how bad you fuck up either, because the government will just pay double the price to fix it for you, and the megacorps escape unscathed. Meanwhile these astronauts are stuck in space and their lives are on the line.

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    • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course last time when only the government would take the blame they sent the astronauts to their deaths. This time they have a scapegoats and an alternative.

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• Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This doesn’t belong here.

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• DMBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I suppose it’s a bit of a consolation that he doesn’t run SpaceX and Tesla with the same incompetence that he does Twitter.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He hasn’t run SpaceX for a long time. At this point he isn’t much more than a mascot for the company.

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    • whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      a bad one

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  • takeda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tesla and SpaceX are really run by different people and Elon Muskow is right now more of a PR person. SpaceX rally for example is run by Gwynne Shotwell. As for Tesla it was believed it was Zach Kirkhorn, but he left last year before cyber truck launch.

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    • DMBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thanks for the tips. 🙂

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      Let’s see:

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      wp:Gwynne Shotwell

      Gwynne Shotwell (née Rowley, previously Gurevich; born November 23, 1963[1]) is an American businesswoman and engineer. She is the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, an American space transportation company, where she is responsible for day-to-day operations and company growth.[2]

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      As of 2023, Shotwell is listed as the 28th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[3] She was ranked 54th on Fortune’s list of Most Powerful Women in 2023.[4] In 2020, Time magazine named her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[5] In 2018, she was listed as the most powerful female engineer by Business Insider.[6]

      wp:SpaceX#Corporate affairs

      In June 2024, eight ex-employees, the same who had previously been fired for penning the open letter against Elon Musk, filed a lawsuit against Musk and SpaceX alleging sexual harassment and discrimination.[338][339]

      also in the article:

      Owne: Elon Musk (42% equity; 79% voting control)[5]

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      wp:Zach Kirkhorn

      Zach Kirkhorn (born 1984) is a financial executive working in the automotive manufacturing industry. He served as the chief financial officer of Tesla, Inc. from 2019 until he stepped down in August 2023.[2]

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      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Ownership_struc…

      It seems Musk owns 12.9% of the company.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sorry but have you seen the cybertruck!?

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It doesn’t matter who runs these companies when they’re both scams.

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    • Bangs42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tesla, Neurolink, The Boring Company, and Twitter are for sure all somewhere between over-valued meme stocks (at best) and scammy shit-heaps (at worst).

      SpaceX, however, is actually doing good and cool stuff. Not that it doesn’t have any problems, it’s still owned by a moron.

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• theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So what’s the combination of frying pans and fires they’re going in/out of?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    42

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• finickydesert@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can you blame them?

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• lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Soyuz bad, let’s build something new 👀

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  • ours@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Depending on Russia isn’t fantastic.

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    • lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So why they did it in the first place? 👀

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