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NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

Shitty Boeing aside, how are they eating up there? I don't know anything about space station food logistics, but if a planned week has turned into ten weeks, surely there must be a resource strain.

Edit: Google search says they can regularly send up unmanned supply ships.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can’t wait to see this project too in Google’s graveyard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the old lemmy switcharoo

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

They eat whichever astronaut dies first.

Just don't question the cause of death, because it will be blunt force trauma

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't they have their own version of MREs they use for situations like this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They just send up more food.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine that Uber Eats bill.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fr. Imagine the expected tip.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Instructions: please ring door bell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Please leave anywhere near the airlock. Pls don't ring or knock, dogs bark.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

they must have a significant food bank supply, including some kind of reserve replacement nutrients in the event shit goes wrong. That or an incredibly redundant delivery network.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Cygnus, last mission launched on 4 August 2024.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I was curious about this same thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I though I read they're currently housed in the ISS so they should have reserves. I initially thought they were stuck in their launch vehicle.