A Blow for Boeing, and an Ambitious Flight for SpaceX

Aug 26, 2024 16:06

Boeing's Starliner program is seriously on the rocks now that NASA has decided to return its first crewed spacecraft on automated controls and its crew on a SpaceX spacecraft. Given the sheer number of problems they're dealing with, it's looking very unlikely that they're going to be able to fulfill their six-mission contract with NASA by 2030, the ( Read more... )

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ms_eclectic August 26 2024, 20:30:18 UTC
incompatible spacesuits LOL good grief

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starshipcat August 26 2024, 23:55:12 UTC

And apparently there's no way to rig an adapter. So SpaceX has to get their measurements and ship spacesuits up to them.

But it's not like it's never happened before. If you've ever watched the movie Apollo 13, the CO2 scrubber filters for the CM and LM were incompatible, and to survive the astronauts had to jury-rig an adapter that allowed them to use CM filters in the LM.

OTOH, given that this is happening in LEO than out by the Moon, and their lives aren't in immediate peril (the ISS is their safe haven for the next several months), NASA may be less willing to rely on adapters. Fabricating and shipping SpaceX spacesuits for them will provide more reliable equipment than developing an adapter to bridge the SpaceX and Boeing equipment (assuming it's physically possible).

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ms_eclectic August 27 2024, 03:28:34 UTC

I did see Apollo 13 and remember the filters yet I never would have thought spacesuits incompatible.

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