Stranded NASA astronauts will return...eventually

NASA announced Saturday that it will use SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to bring home two astronauts stuck in space for months, because the agency does not have confidence in Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule.

[GoofballPaul]

“We thank boeing for being a reliable partner, so reliable in fact that we are no longer relying on them”

[UltimateWaifuXD]

Going from a 10 day to 8 month work trip is insane!

[leonestello]

🚩Boeing is in charge of cleaning up Santa Susana Field Laboratory Brandeis, CA North West of L.A., scheduled clean up by 2017 and they've barely started. Meanwhile it's contaminating the L.A. River and the Jetstream with contaminates upto 200x worse than Long Island.🚩

Please talk about this

[dokichokei]

We went from "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going" to "If it's Boeing, you're not coming back".

[ellingeidbo]

"Thank you for being a reliable partner" is my new favorite corporate way to say F off.

[meminemy]

“We are 1.6 billion dollars over budget.” Government “that’s normal.” 😅

[GSBarlev]

Gotta hand it to Boeing—it takes a lot of work for a company founded by *Elon Musk* to come off as the reliable, safety-conscious choice.

[maxwellpriore]

The dragon capsule you showed was not the crea version, but the cargo one. The space nerd part of my brain (all of it) is very disappointed.

[nonamegiven]

You almost got to feel for Boeing, having their biggest rival coming in to clean up their mess and all.

[haoguo]

That, my friend, is the painful result of privatization of the government.

[benjewell]

(Holds up bulletin board) according to these images, the SpaceX dragon capsule you showed was the cargo, not crew, variant. Us space nerds are disappointed with the fuzzy pen people.

[karenzitkus]

The pure craziness as they realize they were forced into a mrbeast challenge
Edit: woah, why so many likes, the explosions are for the finale of the challenge!?

[lilly-uygq]

I’m never going to complain about being asked to stay late at work again

[Jameman]

We would like to thank Boeing for being a reliable partner. I couldn’t think of another company who can fail this reliably

[christaphillips]

Remember when NASA sent a woman to space for only 6 days and they gave her 100 TAMPONS
This is probably why.

[garchompenthusiast]

I love the privatisation of space travel I love that we hire companies that are irresponsible or desperately cost cutting it's so COOL AND GOOD.

[SignificantNumberOfBeavers]

I distinctly remember predicting something like this would happen when it was announced that a Boeing craft would take the astronauts up?

[ManicMuzee]

The press conference, where they were talking about better communication and focus on listening to people about concerns without repercussions was comedy gold.

[SpiritoftheForest]

How heartbreaking for the families, that their loved ones will be missing holidays and so much time lost - I know they consented to do this but man. Ten days turning into a months-long trip is rough.

[Zelmel]

"Made with safety in mind" is everything for NASA. That's why their stuff involving humans takes forever.