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Starliner spacesuits not compatible with SpaceX Dragon (boingboing.net)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The crew of Apollo 13 weren't really stranded, as such. They were far from home and not sure if they had the means to get home before the supplies ran out, which is a different problem

[–] nslatz 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sergei Krikalev was stuck on the Mir space station for 311 days after the Soviet Union broke up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What an absolutely wild situation to be in.

  • go to space
  • your country becomes another country while you’re there
  • congrats on your new citizenship, I guess…?
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Tom Hanks in The Terminal 2: Waiting for Korolev