Posted on 09/03/2023 9:38:38 PM PDT by Paul R.
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev—the four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission—are scheduled to splash down off the coast of Florida at 12:17 a.m. EDT (0417 UTC) on Monday, Sept. 4, concluding their six-month stay in low Earth orbit.
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Recovery ship Megan making its way to capsule
Amazing how this all is now routine.
If Musk responds by saying Space X will not fly US missions in response, what will NASA do?
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring. The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
Desperately try to get ULA’s crappy products to work and have another gap in space capabilities while they figure it out.
Or they’ll just shrug and kill off NASA and turn it back into a Muslim outreach program again.
Cool, Thanks for sharing this with Me/Us. We have come a long way since the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Flights and Recovery’s. Albeit We should be much further along but NASA had to play stupid games for a few decades. We could already be on Mars by now IMO.
They are doing this crap because braindeadbrandon wants his 10%...
I was reminding the spousal unit of the days when an astronaut launch and recovery would have had every TV in the nation and much of the world tuned in. Now, it's a fraction of us who watch on YouTube.
Maybe it's the absence of Jules Bergman ? 😉
To hire them would violate NASA’s own policies regarding workplace security. Many NASA workers (and contractors, which SpaceX is) are required to have security clearances as a condition of employment.
Looks like about 24 people at that control center. I seem to recall a room of 100+ people with all sorts of equipment back in the day.
Too bad this stuff doesn’t get the media attention anymore. We need more kids interested in the sciences and tech, I would think stuff like this might still be interesting to some.
Military contracts also. The rules are per ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations). There may be security clearance issues also, that’s another ballgame.
Had no idea this was scheduled. My son and I were looking off his balcony chatting and saw it. Took us by surprise.
“ Or they’ll just shrug and kill off NASA and turn it back into a Muslim outreach program again.”
Thx for the reminder - that’s what they were doing during 44.
I think it’s more of generation “Don’t give a $}{!T” / everybody owes me something.
They get taught no REAL HISTORY anymore, half of them think the U.S. started WWII when we nuked Japanese cities and then they attacked Pearl Harbor.
They don’t know or understand the U.S. Constitution.
And they just don’t care unless it’s all about them.
this splashdown occured about an hour after Space X launched another load of starlink satellites.
Way cool/
I knew it was going to happen soon, but I didn’t see any publicity for it.
I watched the replay on YouTube already, but I wanted to see it live.
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