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They seems to have had an issue right after takeoff—so filled with Jet-A

Mexican registered aircraft. Medical transport, pilot, copilot, paramedic, doc, mother and child. Weather bad.

Haven’t heard about a crash in Philly. I’d suggest checking out Juan Browne’s YouTube channel, blancolirio

(just dropping some Berger bad vibes in a couple threads, lol)

Will likely be needed in this thread:

Starlink revenue has more room to grow than launch services as well.

Expended the booster.

Vs it being led by self-interested incompetents harvesting taxpayer money for gain since... forever? Once again, we get it, you personally disagree with some of the politics of one human, which you use to poison the well of "spaceflight" and probably EVs, robots, etc, ad nauseum. Politics that for those of us a little older look like utterly moderate, indeed left-of-center positions not that many years ago—and we know this because that's exactly how many of us might describe our own POVs—utterly unchanged for decades, yet somehow rendered as "extreme" in the 2020s by the lunatics running the asylum. How about no more "nudge, nudge, wink, wink—a nod's as god as a wink to a blind bat!" in the forums?

Musk's statement, given the desired overlap of crew missions, was truthful—even if the plan goes as everyone had expected it to yesterday. They will come home as soon as possible—which is after Crew-10 comes, so Crew-9 (that they are now part of) comes down. Most normies (in this sense anyone not completely immersed in space travel) have no idea what's going on at ISS, and were calling Butch and Suni "stranded" even when they were within a sort of nominal extended mission stay. So a normie might say, "Can't we just bring them home, ASAP?" and Musk could answer—"Yes, we will do that." Which they will—as already planned.

Wow, MS-26 also leaves in march, and MS-27 is April I never paid that much attention, but I would have assumed the Soyuz and Dragon crews would have been out of phase with each other, not all the same (ish) months.

The suits and return vehicle are already there. The delay in making a decision last year was certainly at least in part a NASA decision. Boeing said the vehicle was safe—at some point close to the final decision, but they had already been there far longer than the initial mission. I'd say that the lack of transparency was well within the purview if the administration to deal with. They could have pulled the trigger on a Dragon return sooner I suppose, but that screws up Crew-9 either way. The only alternative was to buy a bespoke Dragon launch just to return them (which would cost 2X what they have paid for the current situation)—of course they could have charged Boeing I suppose. Still it's bizarre to bring them home in February vs March. There's a CRS mission in March, actually. They could send it early, but with a Crew Dragon swapped for Cargo Dragon, and pack in supplies? Crew-10 is 25 March. Send them up early, and send Crew-9 home early.