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NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule (apnews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Astronauts knowingly take on risk, but the risk is usually of a sudden and fiery/icy death.

To know that one’s bone density and god knows what else will be negatively impacted due to upstream fuckups must really suck.