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NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks (www.engadget.com)

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[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe space stations should have lifeboats. Ocean liners must have them, why not the ISS?

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They functionally do, at almost all points in time there are enough capsules docked to the station for all astronauts to be able to return to Earth. The starliner capsule is currently able to return if needed, they are having it stay up there a bit longer to check things out to better understand why the one thruster is bad.