[erupt7893]

Standard rotations are about 6 months - Butch and Suni were supposed to be up there for 8 days... Their families, their lives, and everything normal for way longer than planned. Health routines or not, that’s a brutal toll—mentally, emotionally, not just bones and muscles. Stop downplaying it like it’s no big deal

[troupo]

All you said are literally in the descriptions of the jobs they signed up for.

They literally train for multiple gruesome death scenarios as part of their training. Not just "well, your 8-day stay has now become several months"

[bheadmaster]

Just because they signed up for it, doesn't mean we shouldn't try our best to prevent it. Staying for 9 months in space is not a small deal for people's health.

[troupo]

So NASA did indeed try to prevent it, and weighed it against a multitude of other considerations, and actual experts running actual missions have explicitly and patiently explained the what, the how, and the why.

[wang_li]

>All you said are literally in the descriptions of the jobs they signed up for.

Dismissing every exceptional circumstance as "the jobs they signed up for." is absurd. That's like saying the crash of flight 5342 that killed 67 people is what those passengers signed up for, so it's no big deal.

[troupo]

Turns out they were prepared for this circumstance, had a back up plan, and communicated this plan many times.

Just because you don't like this plan doesn't mean it's bad/political/whatever other fantasy you may come up with.

> That's like saying the crash of flight 5342 that killed 67 people is what those passengers signed up for, so it's no big deal.

Nope, it isn't like that at all. None of those passengers trained, rigorously, for an extreme number of extreme situations. Unlike astronauts whose training includes all that, and more.

And risk and exceptional circumstances are absolutely one hundred percent in the job description. Unlike the passengers in the your analogy you pulled out of an unmentionable place.