Starliner to remain docked to the ISS into July – with no new departure date
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In the highly unlikely event that NASA opts not to use the Starliner as a crew return vehicle, the agency has a few options open to it. One could be to remove two crew members from the next Crew Dragon launch – currently set for the latter half of August – or use an upcoming Soyuz, although the latter requires custom seat liners for the crew.
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Even if the technology is only refined enough to make a big rock hit Earth that wouldn’t otherwise hit Earth, it’s still a potential doomsday weapon that humanity currently doesn’t have. So it’s still a scenario that has to be considered in the pros and cons list for developing an asteroid deflection program.
Well, when he’s right he’s right - and he is without any doubt the world’s leading expert on the subject of CEOs who have lost touch with reality.
Yeah, self-awareness is not strong in Elno. It is not at all.
The Comets accompanied Bill Hayley, whereas The Asteroids are a Swedish psychedelic/space-rock band?
Ignoring what we can detect currently, successfully deflecting something more than week out would require much less precision than successfully deflecting something 24 hours away, if the second became a reality, then I’d start to worry about the feasibility of redirecting a rock to the relatively tiny target that is earth.