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Subject: Re: The Warm Equations
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 14:47:24 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 6/23/2024 12:37 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>> Interesting to note the way margins of a real-life space venture are =
run:
>>=20
>> Two astronauts have been stuck at the ISS for an extra two weeks,
>> so far, because their ride has flat tires, and it's not a crisis,
>> and nobody has had to volunteer to step out the airlock.
>
>Boeing would really, really like to figure out what went wrong with
>the thrusters. Unfortunately, they options for checking them in orbit
>are very  limited, and they're on the service module, which will be
>discard before entry, and burn up.
>
>Hopefully, a door won't pop out of this Boeing craft before they
>land.
>
>An interesting sidenote: This will be the first time the US has
>tried to land a manned capsule on *land*, as opposed to an ocean
>splashdown.

I can remember when riding a vehicle built by Boeing was a sensible
thing to do. Now it looks more like an act of desperation.

If I were one of those astronauts, I think I would wait for ...
someboy else ... to send up a replacement. A replacement that /works/.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"