Though even then, this is something that should have been flat-out mandated when the contracts where going out: "You'll be compatible with one another, and don't even dare start a sentence bitching about it or this contract is immediately torn up".

But damn... this must be so weird for the two astronauts. Second time something on this scale has happened, no? Where someone was uncertainly "stranded" in space? After the stuff with the blown oxygen tank on one of the Apollo missions?

[–] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The crew of Apollo 13 weren't really stranded, as such. They were far from home and not sure if they had the means to get home before the supplies ran out, which is a different problem

[–] nslatz@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sergei Krikalev was stuck on the Mir space station for 311 days after the Soviet Union broke up.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What an absolutely wild situation to be in.

go to space
your country becomes another country while you’re there
congrats on your new citizenship, I guess…?

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Tom Hanks in The Terminal 2: Waiting for Korolev

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