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Boeing's Starliner has 5 'small' helium leaks as astronauts' ISS mission is extended: NASA (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] PancakeTrebuchet 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In the event it was deemed too compromised, how long would it take to get an emergency Dragon capsule up there?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

After this, the FAA should require Boeing to pay spacex to maintain a crew dragon rescue ready to launch at all times the starliner is on orbit.

[–] pennomi 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly SpaceX probably has one on standby right now.

[–] mercano 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe. There are only four Crew Dragons. One’s attached to the station right now, and one’s had its docking equipment removed in preparation for the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn mission. That leaves two. I’m sure one’s already in prep for the next regularly scheduled crew rotation. A rescue mission would mean either leaving two of the astronauts scheduled to fly that flight on the ground to leave open seats for the Starliner crew, or a special mission using the last Dragon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depending on how the Starliner leaks progress, I might be fine with lying on the floor of a Cargo Dragon.

[–] mercano 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Originally they had planned on two more seats in the Crew Dragon behind / below the commander and pilot, but when they switched from a powered land landing to a parachute splashdown, they had to adjust the angles of the seats & the travel in the seat suspension. Those changes required them to drop the second row of seats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Originally they had planned on two more seats

I think the original design had three seats in the second row, for a total of seven.