NASA said Thursday it will decide this weekend whether Boeing’s new capsule is safe enough to return two astronauts from the International Space Station, where they’ve been waiting since June.

Administrator Bill Nelson and other top officials will meet Saturday. An announcement is expected from Houston once the meeting ends.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner on June 5. The test flight quickly encountered thruster failures and helium leaks so serious that NASA kept the capsule parked at the station as engineers debated what to do.

SpaceX could retrieve the astronauts, but that would keep them up there until next February. They were supposed to return after a week or so at the station.

  • @[email protected]
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    392 months ago

    This is a great idea for a porn plot: several young, fit people in an enclosed space with nothing to do, cause they finished their assigned tasks weeks ago. Lots of positions that aren’t physically possible in earths gravity.
    And they just ejected their last set of clothes.

    Now I just need funding to film it in zero G.

    • @Tujio
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      112 months ago

      Vague memory from years ago, but I think that The Uranus Experiment 2 has a zero-g moneyshot.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      82 months ago

      Porn is going to do to commercial space flight what it did for the Internet and VHS.

    • worldwidewave
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      72 months ago

      Now I just need funding to film it in zero G.

      I don’t wanna spoil things, but if you’re looking for floating strange liquids, maybe check out the new Alien movie.

    • @Zron
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      42 months ago

      Unfortunately, erections probably don’t work that well in zero G, although NASA has been neglectful in testing this thoroughly.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      There’s been one movie that had part of an anal scene in zero G lol.

      I think it was a czech porno or something. Don’t ask me how I know.