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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China should just fly around the ISS doing flips and shit. Like, they need to bring a skateboard and do a space walk with it. Just stunt on the US as hard as possible

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Pulling off a sick 360,000° kickflip

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I experienced every single emotion at once thinking of this.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

A three-hour tour.

A three-hour tour.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

President Xi please liberate our astronauts from the broken boeing space capsules obama-spike

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't this getting close to a health risk, how long they are going to be in space?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think 2 years is considered the safe lifetime limit for being in space. Not sure how doing it all at once affects things.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

American record is something like a year continuously, Russians have a dude who did like 3 years or something nuts. So yeah should be ok

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They should get unlimited money for purchasing things and a book deal upon return.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If we didn't live in the dumbest timeline possible, our International Space Station would be one of greatest achievements we would all celebrate and take it seriously. The ISS deserves better.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The ISS is a giant disappointment, but I always take comfort that the first person in space, Yuri Gagrin, was born on a collective farm. The first person up there was a worker, and that means the universe to me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hell yeah! It's wonderful to know that a worker went to the stars and saw how united we should all be. It's such a shame the "Space age" and all its wonder was wasted on Cold War bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We've successfully launched the international space station! (Whites only)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You'll never guess what the SS in ISS stands for.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Hmm, I hadn't even thought about their compensation. How are they paid anyway? Is it an annual salary or contractual pay per mission? I wonder if all of this counts as overtime.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

After returning would they bother to buy one book at a discounted price, if they had unlimited money to purchase things?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

8 days? I thought you said 8 months!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

this is the same country that sent people to the moon

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

im starting to see why some people refuse to believe that

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

The most boring season of For All Mankind

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Wow that movie is already almost 10 years old and I've still been meaning to get around to watching it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Government contracting in the US is like if you need a $3 can opener but you are only allowed to order from Acme Corp and they send you a sledgehammer with a stick of dynamite attached to the end along with a $500 invoice

And then you are like yes good job this is exactly what I need and pay immediately then go on to see what else is in the catalog

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

can no one else just get them...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There are 5 months left of this year what are you doing ohnoes