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Coach Tinch Tugwell 🔻
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Louisville, KY From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.
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Privatize the space program they said. It will increase efficiency they said

Headline: "There's a problem with rescuing the stranded astronauts: SpaceX and Boeing spacesuits aren't compatible"
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AXanitaxanax.bsky.social

Even when we had different contractors working on the space program in the 60s/70s this was a problem. (Compatibility, etc.)

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RHryanhindinger.bsky.social

Sigh. It was planned this way from the beginning BY NASA. Criticize Boeing to your heart’s content but damn this ain’t the thing man…

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KKkhuruuk.bsky.social

They could just put extra spacesuits on the rescue vehicle for them to change into.

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OSsudbud.bsky.social

Like... So? Bring enough space suits. I say this from a human perspective, not from a corporate "if they die and I make a penny that's cool" perspective, ofc.

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MDmarkdowling.bsky.social

They could have sent up suits with the recent cargo flight, they didn’t. Probably because SpaceX wanted paying to make them and neither NASA or Boeing would commit to writing the cheque

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OPsofusm.bsky.social

Hmm ... isn't that something they should have had on their schedule from the beginning?

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MBmatslbengtsson.bsky.social

The filter in the command module used to scrub CO2, did not fit in the lunar module in the Apollo mission.

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Eh, I pretty much put this on Boeing and the folks in Congress who insisted NASA write them a contract even though SpaceX was the low bidder and consistently meeting every target they set. NASA trying to continue human spaceflight solely with legacy contractors would have us still grounded today.

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ISiansilvester.bsky.social

Can't they make adapters out of some plastic bags and cardboard Apollo 13 stylee 😀

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Ddisnothus.bsky.social

Yeah no one including me expected these exact issues. For fucks sake look at God damn iPhone chargers systemic issues can be applied to other systems. Capitalists can't see past their God damn noses if they smell money.

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Coach Tinch Tugwell 🔻
@easyphloem.bsky.social
Louisville, KY From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.
319 followers474 following1.6k posts