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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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[–] mercano 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I feel bad for Nick Hague and Stephanie Wilson, the two SpaceX Crew 9 crew members who were bumped to make room for the returning Boeing crew.

EDIT: Looks like there’s some disagreement in NASA as to which American gets the commander’s seat, see below.

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

Oh, have they confirmed the revised crew members for Crew-9? I must have missed that.

[–] mercano 4 points 3 months ago

That’s what I was reading on Wikipedia at the time, it’s since been changed to commander TBD. Aleksandr Gorbunov is unbumpable, as he’s flying through the seat swap agreement between NASA and Roscosmos, so he’s been moved from mission specialist to pilot. Ars is reporting that they’ve heard that original commander Zena Cardman has retained her seat, but I guess it isn’t official and there’s some concern with some at NASA that neither Cardman nor Gorbunnov have flown in space before. NASA hasn’t flown an all-rookie flight since Skylab 4, the last crew to visit that station.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can't believe Elon is still running SpaceX.

I assume all the leaders and top engineers at SpaceX would come to meetings, listen to Elon rambling nonsense for an hour, said "sure boss, that sounds great" then went to the "real" meeting without Elon all the way across the facility to get shits done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

More or less. Of all Elon's companies, SpaceX seems to have the most robust strategies for managing the boss.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That strategy's name? Gwynne Shotwell.