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Two Astronauts Could Be Stuck in Outer Space Until 2025

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0:00 no but you you have you can still grab even while you're floating and imagine you P your pull out game yeah and then when you come space come it just flies how do you clean that up yeah you go like [Music] this y'all he about the two astronauts that went to space for a total of 8 days but really they're going to be stuck there potentially until 2025 what what happened what did their spaceship got like lost two American astronauts blast it off on a test mission to the International Space Station wow they still need a test they've been by the way ISS really they went on June 5th it's the day after my birthday Market they were expecting to be back home in a matter of days but things didn't go quite as planned they they ran out of Rocket Fuel uh no um Barry quote Butch

0:52 Willmore that's type and Sunita Williams are still there floating high above the Earth 2 months later already they were stuck there actually because a Boeing Starliner spacecraft was supposed to take them to the to the station they made it there but there were some kind of like funky problems if you will did the chair break and fly out of the window like the other Boeing flight well that's crazy yeah the chair broke and flew out of the window but they survived somehow that's tight yes um they had leaks in the propulsion system and some of its thrusters were shutting down so it's kind of a bumpy ride but they did eventually make it to the space station however because of that that was their like literal spacecraft to get home as well they

1:43 deemed it like unsafe to make sure that they can come back unless they did tests so they took basically a replica model of the same spacecraft that flew up there and they're doing a s███████ of cognitive tests down here on Earth in order to figure out what problems happened or why it malfunctional like that they still haven't exactly out the problem weird yeah but for that reason they don't want to officially approve them being able to go back on that same space so for like safety precautions yeah because that's way worse if something happens and they die right they got another one like half a year like SpaceX can't be like I'll pick you up yeah ironically here's the thing SpaceX can pick them up because SpaceX has a mission to go out there a man spacecraft on their their Falcon jet which has done many trips back and forth already they have a trip going out in September however Boeing got that

2:33 multi-billion dollar NASA whatever deal in order to be like the kind of uh ████ jet engineer architect situation partnership with this so Boeing's like pissed at the idea that SpaceX would go and save the day they got cuz they gained exclusivity yeah and and if SpaceX goes and uh gets these astronauts then I think that knows uh the contract that they were given or cuz it's like you sucking Boeing yeah SpaceX should have it now damn Boeing is just in trouble right now huh yeah they messing up the whistleblowers keep dying too not a good cuz they get sick yeah the the flight sorry it wasn't the Falcon it's the dragon the the flight to the space station will be made by SpaceX crew Dragon the initial plan was for the four member Crews to be aboard but two of the seats could be uh could be empty or left

3:24 empty if needed in order to bring the two astronauts home the plan would be astronauts would spend more than 8 months total rather than 8 Days aboard the International Space Station if the crew dragon is used the Starliner craft would be returned to Earth without any crew Under Computer control NASA officials said it could take a week or more for a final decision to be made that's crazy I always knew that like in these movies where someone's stranded in space it would ultimately be uh bureaucracy that keeps them there damn just like the movie but what happened in interstellar n don't tell me don't tell me I forgot what happened a lot more sensible than what's happening here all we know is that when they go through the Wormhole we're going dick out if you know that reference you're a true fan but what happened in Armageddon though that is when what's his face jumps on the rock it starts singing yeah well that's cuz he's a oil rck guy

4:16 then you know exactly what happens they do the analogy that if you take a ████ rock and you try to blow the as it's going to go nothing's going to happen but if you blow it up from the inside so he stayed there what yep he stayed on the rock you know exactly what happens yeah but then it wasn't the government that made him do that was Deep Impact yeah that's what I'm saying in real life it it's it's much more tragic because it's like they're red taping themselves yeah so they may not be able to get out till 2025 why the government if they stay with Boeing how do they even survive till then especially all so they do have reserves there that and of course just like like ████ uh the the the the the Matt Damon movie The Mars one well you see Nick they have

5:06 ration your stuff out you know what I mean and make it work they've got these little packets and it's got this ice cream in it that's kind of especially for resturants if I was on board I'd eat that and probably like 3 days I'd be so hungry you got to get your your Macros in there's not even that much protein that would be the worst thing when you're bored as ████ and you have to ration food out cuz I feel like I eat when I'm bored yeah but then if I'm busy then you're just like in the zone you're like oh I forgot to eat and then I think that's the best time I do think though that if you kick into actual survival like that's some real ████ have a big enough reason you be able to do it no I just kill myself no if anything you kill the other person so you have double the rations if I was in Mars I opened up the space suit on them and then me but in order on the Triple H side in space boy in order to get to this position at all

5:57 they've got to have some kind of training knowing that this could possibly happen right so they're not like going completely psycho earlier this week NASA used a SpaceX rocket to deliver more food and supplies to the ISS oh so they're already using it's like just go get them ████ damn dude that sucks that's so that's laziness here's another example of government laziness the government being I'm so lazy right now I don't want to do it that's like corporate greed yeah I know damn Bo taking I want to be the guy why why do people still support this company huh cuz you have the choice I know that's why I I'm like you know what I'm not going to fly these ████ anymore and I'm like well this the only airplane that they use what what's the other brand Airbus yeah but I don't know

6:48 any other it's like if if I'm on if I have really good points on Delta I have to I'm going to use Delta yeah I have to use that plane or else I'll lose my points I work so hard for those points I have hundreds of thousands of points that's legit Bo boing was hoping that the maiden Starliner Mission would pave the way for regular use of its capsule for Missions back and forth to the station SpaceX crew dragon has been approved for NASA Mission since 2020 so it's like clear that SpaceX is killing it but Boeing obviously is in direct competition so it's a it's a soft spot they can't just have SpaceX come in and save their people that's so that would be literally the the worst PR thing that could happen to them I feel like it's so much bigger than that though crashing what so much bigger than just like a PR Nightmare and all that it's money I know but it's it sucks that you know these people's lives are at risk just because it's like they don't want to make a deal

7:38 yeah it's like those tesos that break down and then they have to be like someone in a regular gas truck comes along and helps them the longest somebody spent in space is 437 days which is a rush Damon well at least they have each other they're not alone right they're they're they're they're not alone it's two of them right yeah and is it a boy and a girl yeah so that was think oh actually o kononenko another person from Russia currently aboard the ISS is the first person to spent more than a thousand days in space during the course of their career but I think that's total I don't think that's straight SpaceX probably suck you probably can't get leverage you they have to be there for or you just kind of like I mean you think of it so you can't put your ████ foot down how many how many days do they got to be there for well it's unknown right now but 2025 potentially could be like over eight

8:29 months sunbathe though cuz like that's important you go crazy yeah don't they do like sun walks in their space suits maybe you've got to be curious about sex in the space like there's a there's a difference between mile high club and like thousand mile high club but I bet it sucks you probably can't get your footing down dude you can't get just keep floating no but you you have you can still grab even while you're floating and imagine you P your pull out game yeah and then when you come space it just flies how do you clean that up yeah you go like this she she eats it clean she eats it she swims to it okay yeah that's yeah dude that's right that's crazy right jizz in space is crazy you don't miss what if you miss drops it's everywhere wa wait can't you

9:20 just turn it off the gravity stuff it's a little dangerous like that can like seep into the mechanic and then the guy's like oh don't get it on me don't get it on me oh god gay I'm not gay oh I got my hair oh who's been having sex in here there's just bunch of jizz floating everywhere but is is it always just non-gravity right they can't they can turn it off right turn that ████ off or is that just in the movies brother do you think they're going to annoy each other I would assume in natural cuz gravity they don't just turn it off the way they they do gravity is they spin the space station so if they spin it at enough Force proportionate to its size then it creates a gravitational force away from the center of it holy ████ you think they're going to annoy each other but also I'm not smart enough to know if you're lying or not I just believe you I believe it you sound confident you know you know when things

10:11 like this happen and it's all over the news it's a plate I wonder how fast the book rights get bought and the movie rights get bought for like disasters that haven't yet solved itself That's crazy cuz there's got to be a barometer of like hey this is insensitive to begin this process now or ████ they're already running let's hurry up and expedite this yeah well they could communicate with Houston right they'll be like typing that's home Bas what if what if that's the problem what if they sold the rights like what if uh NASA sold the rights to this situation already and in the story they get saved by NASA so they're like ah we can't have SpaceX up there yeah we sold the script nobody wants a third party savior yeah that's true

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