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Boeing's Starliner has 5 'small' helium leaks as astronauts' ISS mission is extended: NASA (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Depending on how the Starliner leaks progress, I might be fine with lying on the floor of a Cargo Dragon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Originally they had planned on two more seats in the Crew Dragon behind / below the commander and pilot, but when they switched from a powered land landing to a parachute splashdown, they had to adjust the angles of the seats & the travel in the seat suspension. Those changes required them to drop the second row of seats.

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Originally they had planned on two more seats

I think the original design had three seats in the second row, for a total of seven.