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belter
10 months ago
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NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return o...
They don't have a way to come back to Earth right now on a Spaceship cleared for human flight.
NavinF
10 months ago
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I'm sure the astronauts would much prefer to have a Dragon available, but I don't think NASA's "cleared for human flight" means much. After all, 4% (14/355) of all the astronauts that flew on the space shuttle died when their vehicles exploded.
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