The first 100 days

[Gmoney4WW]

Looks like we finally got the astronauts home. Crazy it took this long

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Didn't they recently just scrap bringing back their ship for awhile?

 

[lawpoke87]

Didn't they recently just scrap bringing back their ship for awhile?

They brought back the Starliner months ago but believed it was too dangerous to have the crew return in the ship. Not sure why NASA couldn’t have retrieved them in the last 8 plus months.

 

[astonmartin708]

They brought back the Starliner months ago but believed it was too dangerous to have the crew return in the ship. Not sure why NASA couldn’t have retrieved them in the last 8 plus months.

Not exactly a huge to-do. These astronauts would were already on a shortlist for a more extended space mission, but the odds of them being picked for it were low. They kind of viewed it as a unique opportunity and being up there for an extended period was a plan B that they were aware of when they took off. This wasn't Apollo 13.

Moreover, the Starliner failure, as well as the recent Spacx failures are examples of the risks that privatization still has for early stage space exploration.

 

[Gmoney4WW]

They brought back the Starliner months ago but believed it was too dangerous to have the crew return in the ship. Not sure why NASA couldn’t have retrieved them in the last 8 plus months.

I very lightly skimmed that an article that said some things about a space ship being stuck up in space, talking bout it being too dangerous to bring back. Think it was off of a current news site. I thought I remembered that ship returning, but I just assumed I was misremembering. Can't think of any other ship being stuck up in space other than that one. Must have been an old article & I just didn't realize.