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NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule (apnews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Their backup plan is to have the extra 2 astronauts lie on the floor of the Crew Dragon and reenter without suits. Yep. That's still safer than Starliner.

[โ€“] voluble 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They will have suits. There is a spare on the ISS, and Dragon will bring another one up. They covered that in the press conference.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I meant for the 3 weeks between when Starliner leaves and the Crew 9 Dragon gets there.