TheReturnOfPEBStarliner spacesuits not compatible with SpaceX Dragon
Carighan MaconarI mean this is a direct result of privatising this particular field, granted.
Though even then, this is something that should have been flat-out mandated when the contracts where going out: “You’ll be compatible with one another, and don’t even dare start a sentence bitching about it or this contract is immediately torn up”.
MartianSandsThe crew of Apollo 13 weren’t really stranded, as such. They were far from home and not sure if they had the means to get home before the supplies ran out, which is a different problem
Sergei Krikalev was stuck on the Mir space station for 311 days after the Soviet Union broke up.
What an absolutely wild situation to be in.
- go to space
- your country becomes another country while you’re there
- congrats on your new citizenship, I guess…?
Tom Hanks in The Terminal 2: Waiting for Korolev