Re:NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner pr...
by gangorgasm on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:07AM
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Do we more or less know how many days worth of supplies they have to keep both up there if needed?
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Re:NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner pr...
by smilespray on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:47AM
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I don't know the specific answer, but I would double-check we got the same number of astronauts back down as we sent up.
Re:NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner pr...
by Bluestein on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:01AM
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Totally on point.-
PS. There was a nice movie released 1979 about that :)
Re:NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner pr...
by dotnet00 on Monday August 19, 2024 @10:40AM
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IIRC they usually keep an extra 3 months worth of supplies available at the station, to allow for delays to resupply missions. A resupply mission also arrived at the station recently, which would have had additional supplies for them.
If they decide to go with the plan of sending a reduced crew in Crew-9, they'll probably add extra supplies to that too. So, supply wise there shouldn't be any concerns.
Re:NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner pr...
by nordsieck on Monday August 19, 2024 @11:09AM
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> Do we more or less know how many days worth of supplies they have to keep both up there if needed?
Not sure, but a Cygnus resupply mission (NG-21) launched on the 4th of August, so I'm sure they have plenty of supplies.
Re:NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner pr...
by HarHarVeryFunny on Monday August 19, 2024 @11:21AM
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Supplies aren't an issue - they send up more every couple of months, and just did so a week or two ago.
There is a slight inconvenience in that the ISS has 6 bedrooms and 7 astronauts, so now one of them will be sleeping on the couch for 8 months rather than 8 days.
Re:NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner pr...
by gangorgasm on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:02PM
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> sleeping on the couch for 8 months rather than 8 days.
Wonder what that actually translates to, in space
Is there an extra "guest" specially-adapted "zero gravity sleeping bag" or such?
Re:NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner pr...
by HarHarVeryFunny on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:07PM
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All I read was that the "couch" is a sleeping bag in the Japanese module. I think the real sleeping quarters provide privacy as well as strapping down the occupant as some semblance of gravity.