[Animats]

That decision has to be made well before the launch. Crew 9 has to launch with fewer crew onboard. The Boeing crew needs Space-X spacesuits made for them because Boeing's suits don't fit in Space-X seats.[1] What cargo goes up with Crew 9 would change.

Are those suits being made? Can they be made without the wearers present for fitting? Did someone think of this before the Boeing launch?

[1] https://jalopnik.com/stranded-astronauts-now-have-to-deal-wi...

[dotnet00]

Fairly certain the other user is misinformed and the general media reporting on this entire affair has continued to be so awful as to blow up the fact that the two capsules use incompatible IVA plug-ins.

If they choose to return on Crew-9, the associated IVA suits do exist and would be sent up. They already have both astronauts' measurements and have either made/adjusted a set for them, or have found ones that would be a good enough fit.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/yes-nasa-really-could-...

Eric Berger and Arstechnica in general has a fairly reliable track record on space related reporting. So I would trust them more than all the "big" outlets which can't seem to live in their own reality.

[JumpCrisscross]

> If they choose to return on Crew-9, the associated IVA suits do exist and would be sent up

This is SpaceX’s pitch. NASA hasn’t accepted it yet. The novel risks could favour using the Starliner suits in Dragon or no suit at all.

[dotnet00]

There's no benefit to using Starliner suits in Dragon since they can't be plugged in, and there is no risk to using Dragon IVA suits that are based on the measurements they already have of both of them.

[JumpCrisscross]

> no benefit to using Starliner suits in Dragon

Of course there is. They already have them and we know they fit.

We also know, by the way, the measurements of the Starliner and Dragon ports. Making an adapter is theoretically easier than making a new suit. If you don’t think so, then map every argument for that scepticism to remotely tailoring a spacesuit.

> no risk to using Dragon IVA suits that are based on the measurements they already have of both of them

Measurements can change or be faulty or be critical at different parts of the body for different suit designs. “No risk” doesn’t exist in aerospace.

They should send up the new suits and then evaluate.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Are those suits being made? Can they be made without the wearers present for fitting?

No. They'd have to come down not wearing suits.

[Animats]

Uh oh.