teft@lemmy.world to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agoNASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsuleapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1185arrow-down13cross-posted to: space@lemmy.world
arrow-up1182arrow-down1external-linkNASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsuleapnews.comteft@lemmy.world to Spaceflight@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square51fedilinkcross-posted to: space@lemmy.world
minus-squarebrown567@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·3 months agoI’d probably be upset to have my return delayed that much, but I’m sure there are people who would be ecstatic that their space trip got extended. Hopefully those astronauts are the latter XD
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·3 months agoAstronauts knowingly take on risk, but the risk is usually of a sudden and fiery/icy death. To know that one’s bone density and god knows what else will be negatively impacted due to upstream fuckups must really suck.
I’d probably be upset to have my return delayed that much, but I’m sure there are people who would be ecstatic that their space trip got extended. Hopefully those astronauts are the latter XD
Astronauts knowingly take on risk, but the risk is usually of a sudden and fiery/icy death.
To know that one’s bone density and god knows what else will be negatively impacted due to upstream fuckups must really suck.