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1. Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 03:12:09 JST Anime Wong

   • Kenny Blankenship
   Not to sound like a fag, but this story is not accurate. The two astronauts left by Boeing on the ISS did not return on the Soyuz (their names are Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams). They are still up there
   
   The US is still paying the Russians to launch American astronauts to the ISS. This was part of a standard crew rotation.
   
   The more funny thing is that NASA still doesn't have a reliable way to launch its own people into space (that's what they really wanted Boeing for, and they screwed up spectacularly), which is why they are still paying the Russians for launches. They could go all in on SpaceX, but the federal government is butthurt over Elon and is trying to ruin him (For example, the FAA keeps stalling on their applications to perform launches so that they miss launch windows, costing them money or forcing them to ignore the FAA and then lose money via criminal fees).
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/ef0e2db7-d4ac-497e-ab80-44ee899e9320
   • Marakus (marakus@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 03:12:09 JST Marakus

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     • Kenny Blankenship
     @Elliptica @DW2 Have you tried reading the second picture?
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   • Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 07:29:07 JST Anime Wong

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     • Kenny Blankenship
     • That Would Be Telling
     @ThatWouldBeTelling @DW2 I'm aware of all that, but like I was trying to say, at the moment the US government is having an ongoing fight with Elon (for about a year now) where they've been using delaying tactics to hurt his business. They are currently stalling a test flight of a bigger rocket "because they need to do another environmental test" while literally admitting they are only doing it to punish him for skirting around previous FAA delay tactics.
     
     In theory they could just go with SpaceX for everything since they've been fairly reliable and are based in the US, but they are not, and instead trying to prop up businesses like the ULA that barely have anything working. The US wants it's rockets, but it's not beyond being petty and deliberately shooting itself in the foot over it. And it will reward it's friends, and punish its enemies.
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   • That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 07:29:08 JST That Would Be Telling

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     • Kenny Blankenship

     @Elliptica @DW2 "The more funny thing is that NASA still doesn't have a reliable way to launch its own people into space (that's what they really wanted Boeing for, and they screwed up spectacularly), which is why they are still paying the Russians for launches."

     Really??? Sure, nothing can beat the very long term Soyuz safety statistics if you count the half a decade of them over the only Officially killed guy due to a parachute failure in 1967 with a now six generations old capsule, but so far Crew Dragon, given a fixed price contract from NASA at the same time as Boeing is doing fine.

     That's one test flight with crew like the one Starliner failed, nine NASA missions, five private, and of course one unmanned to get things going. A completely successful one as far as I could tell just now from Wikipedia (perhaps an admission against interest), which Boeing has failed in two tries prior to the latest mission which should have never gone up with crew.

     NASA's Commercial Crew Program is among many other things providing redundancy and independence from RUSSIA!!! RUSSIA!!! RUSSIA!!! as a way to get people up and down from the ISS.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soyuz_missions

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Demo-1

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 07:29:38 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Kenny Blankenship
     • That Would Be Telling

     @Elliptica @ThatWouldBeTelling @DW2 Female-run government, catty and bitchy. They're lucky he's gullible enough to operate here, I'd bet honduras, guatemala, et al wouldn't give him so much shit