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  • spacecraft Starliner lands without a hitch

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 7 11:15:41 2024
    With no crew aboard, spacecraft Starliner lands without a hitch

    The beleaguered Starliner spacecraft, built by Boeing, successfully
    landed in New Mexico just after midnight Eastern time, ending a
    crucial test flight that proved to be a real headache for NASA.

    Officials at the space agency feared that Starliner's thrusters might malfunction during its return, just as some thrusters had on its
    journey to the International Space Station.

    That's why, when the gumdrop-shaped space capsule parachuted down to
    Earth, it carried only cargo -- and its first crew remained safely on
    board the International Space Station.

    https://www.npr.org/2024/09/07/nx-s1-5103722/starliner-nasa-boeing-crew-space-station-lands

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Sep 8 01:31:46 2024
    On 2024-09-07, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    That's why, when the gumdrop-shaped space capsule parachuted down to
    Earth, it carried only cargo -- and its first crew remained safely on
    board the International Space Station.


    'A three-hour tour.' (anybody spot the reference?)

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Sat Sep 7 22:55:05 2024
    On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 01:31:46 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    'A three-hour tour.' (anybody spot the reference?)

    Gilligan's Island

    The two-person crew of the charter boat SS Minnow and five passengers
    on a "three-hour tour" from Honolulu run into a storm and are
    shipwrecked on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The
    exact location is said to be in conflicting longitudes/latitudes in
    three episodes

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to fungus@amongus.com.invalid on Sat Sep 7 22:52:34 2024
    On Sun, 8 Sep 2024 01:31:46 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:

    'A three-hour tour.' (anybody spot the reference?)

    ???????????

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rCJj_t6ghNY

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  • From Retrograde@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Sep 9 02:12:36 2024
    On 2024-09-08, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:
    shipwrecked on an uncharted island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The
    exact location is said to be in conflicting longitudes/latitudes in
    three episodes

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island

    There ya go, well done internet stranger.

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