The media plays-up the troubles with return vehicles, but let's face it: ISS is a habitation, with regular resupply missions, and carefully-planned resources in reserve, where a design goal is having astronauts and non-astronauts living and working there for extended periods.
Nobody was running short of air, electricity or food, that I heard of. It was not turning into "Lord of the Flies" up there. [If it did, would we hear about it?]
KTLA has been flailing its arms and crying "Danger Bill Bobinson!" since going on-air, and that's what keeps viewers tuning in to see whether Dr. Zeke Smits will appear in the "film at 11". [Lost in Space aired on CBS, but you get the picture]
During an early Space Shuttle launch, my mother pointed out to me when the commentator described "entrails" behind the ascending vehicle, and she explained that they're called "contrails" and if we actually spotted entrails in the sky, then something had indeed gone horribly wrong, especially considering the resolution of TV cameras in 1977...
During the undocking, NASA commentators noted that several other astronauts have logged continuous outer-space hours longer than Crew-9 members. The drama and suspense are nevertheless exciting, but "stranded" is hyperbole, when their sweet ride was simply "in the shop" for longer than expected.
If you ask me, the much more interesting aspect is the international composition of each crew and all the equipment/vehicles, which helps to ensure that agencies are collaborating together in peaceful endeavors and exercising diplomacy through research and education.
The media plays-up the troubles with return vehicles, but let's face it: ISS is a habitation, with regular resupply missions, and carefully-planned resources in reserve, where a design goal is having astronauts and non-astronauts living and working there for extended periods.
Nobody was running short of air, electricity or food, that I heard of. It was not turning into "Lord of the Flies" up there. [If it did, would we hear about it?]
KTLA has been flailing its arms and crying "Danger Bill Bobinson!" since going on-air, and that's what keeps viewers tuning in to see whether Dr. Zeke Smits will appear in the "film at 11". [Lost in Space aired on CBS, but you get the picture]
During an early Space Shuttle launch, my mother pointed out to me when the commentator described "entrails" behind the ascending vehicle, and she explained that they're called "contrails" and if we actually spotted entrails in the sky, then something had indeed gone horribly wrong, especially considering the resolution of TV cameras in 1977...
During the undocking, NASA commentators noted that several other astronauts have logged continuous outer-space hours longer than Crew-9 members. The drama and suspense are nevertheless exciting, but "stranded" is hyperbole, when their sweet ride was simply "in the shop" for longer than expected.
If you ask me, the much more interesting aspect is the international composition of each crew and all the equipment/vehicles, which helps to ensure that agencies are collaborating together in peaceful endeavors and exercising diplomacy through research and education.