Now because I have free time this news amused me deeply. The trained machine is more important than the crew! Why? Well it’s kinda like this. Y’all had a car that was government issued and it is all set up to go home after a series of unexpected engine failures and helium leaks that turned what was supposed to be a week-long mission into a flawed three-month mission. So given that we at NASA decided after consulting with the Attorney General of the United States to invoke the Warranty and send it back home with no passengers fully insured against loss. Willmore and Williams do have special Military Grade 3-D goggles to enable them to collect a paycheck peering from the Space Station to the Earth below. One may become a mystic speaking of the living world seen from far above. V-logging because his fully vaccinated partner is now dead from a stroke. And he alone with the corpse. So now half insane he V-logs and NASA cannot take him down.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/boeing-starliner-spacecraft-returns-earth-without-crew
On August 24, NASA officials decided astronauts Wilmore and Williams would not return to Earth in Boeing's beleaguered Starliner spacecraft following a series of unexpected engine failures and helium leaks that turned what was supposed to be a week-long mission into a flawed three-month mission.
Both astronauts stranded on the ISS will return in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in February - extending a week-long mission on the ISS to eight months.
Steve Stich, NASA's commercial crew program manager, called Starliner's landing in White Sands "a bullseye landing," adding, "We've got some things we know we've got to work on."
I know, Stegiel. The entire situation is absolutely chimeric. Like "Space Oddity": "For here, am I sitting in a tin can/ Far, above the world/ Planet Earth is blue/ And there's nothing I can do." I cannot even envision the trust these people placed in Boeing who evidently can no longer manufacture planes from which wheels and doors don't fly. This version seems quite appropriate for these poor souls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRc0yaMW7Mw
I understand *why* the boomers went to Itchycoo Park to get stoned, because the war and materialism was failing us. But in the end chemical intoxication is not enlightenment which is why the boomers ended by the 80s snorting coke and selling out on Wall St.