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NASA Tells SpaceX to Focus on Safety After Astronaut Hospitalizations

A crew of astronauts was recently hospitalized following a return to Earth on board SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.
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A NASA safety panel warned SpaceX to focus on crew safety for its commercial trips to the International Space Station (ISS) after four astronauts were recently hospitalized.


During a meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel on Thursday, Kent Rominger, a former astronaut and member of the committee, highlighted a series of recent anomalies with SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and its Dragon crew capsule, SpaceNews reported. SpaceX has been NASA’s trusted partner for years, launching nine crews to the ISS on largely reliable hardware. The recent anomalies, however, might be the result of the company’s commitment to launching missions at an increasingly faster pace and to maintain its lead in the industry.

“When you look at these recent incidents over the last handful of weeks, it does lead one say that it’s apparent that operating safely requires significant attention to detail as hardware ages and the pace of operations increases,” Rominger is quoted as saying. “Both NASA and SpaceX need to maintain focus on safe Crew Dragon operations and not take any ‘normal’ operations for granted.”

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 recently returned from the ISS, riding on board a Dragon spacecraft. Following the spacecraft’s splashdown off the coast of Florida on Friday, all four astronauts were transported to a hospital and one crew member was kept for an overnight stay. NASA did not release any further information about why the crew was hospitalized or whether it was related to the Dragon splashdown.
 


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“… At times, it has felt like Musk’s politicalization was fueled by aggrievement. He has fumed over his perceived slights by the Biden administration for failing to properly credit him for the electric-car industry’s success; stewed over his son transitioningto become his daughter; and chafed at political correctness that, in his opinion, has run amok.

Trump wasn’t his first choice (nor maybe even his second), but, ever the pragmatist, Musk got on board with the one viable candidate who wasn’t President Biden. (When Harris, the vice president, took over the top of the ticket that animus to administration simply carried over.)

The failed assassination attempt against Trump in July flipped Musk’s behind-the-scenes support of the former president into a full-blown public embrace, turning on his powerful echoverse of fanbois and increasing his already prodigious tweet storms into Category 5 ragers. …”
 
Hearing in the case over Elon’s million-dollar giveaways today. What a shocker - turns out Elon was totally lying before when he said the winners would be chosen at random, or his lawyer is lying now when he says they’re not:

 
rodoheel said:
Class-action lawsuit, anyone?
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I dunno, who is the injured class? People who gave their info for the fake contest? What’s their injury? I am not a litigator, though, so maybe others see potential there.
 
nycfan said:
I dunno, who is the injured class? People who gave their info for the fake contest? What’s their injury? I am not a litigator, though, so maybe others see potential there.
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I doubt there's a viable class action here, but if Elon's taking their personal information and monetizing it in a way that causes some type of measurable harm to them, I guess you could make the argument and see where it goes.

The bigger risk, in my view, is he's committing some type of wire fraud, which is of course a crime. Not likely to be charged, but it's incredible to me the world's richest man, with billions at stake, would take serious risks like this to run a scam for the king of all scam artists.
 
nycfan said:
I dunno, who is the injured class? People who gave their info for the fake contest? What’s their injury? I am not a litigator, though, so maybe others see potential there.
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Yeah it would likely be a pretty attenuated damages argument. But you could perhaps make out this argument:
  1. I was induced to sign this petition with the understanding that by doing so, I had an equal opportunity to win money with everyone else who signed up; in other words, I was told if I signed up, I would receive something of value (implied value of maybe a dollar or less, but still something of value)
  2. I was not, in fact, given something of value, because in reality I did not have an equal chance to win
  3. I was thereby damaged in the amount of the implied value of the random chance to win $1 million
Even if the "value" is tiny, certain states' unfair practices acts (Little FTC Acts) may be broad enough to cover such actions, and may provide for minimum statutory damages in addition to, or instead of, actual damages. And/or the state AGs offices could be entitled to file an action to impose fines.
 
lawtig02 said:
I doubt there's a viable class action here, but if Elon's taking their personal information and monetizing it in a way that causes some type of measurable harm to them, I guess you could make the argument and see where it goes.

The bigger risk, in my view, is he's committing some type of wire fraud, which is of course a crime. Not likely to be charged, but it's incredible to me the world's richest man, with billions at stake, would take serious risks like this to run a scam for the king of all scam artists.
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Elon could end up losing, in various ways, the vast majority of the biggest individual fortune in the history of the world all because he got "red-pilled" by a bunch of internet trolls a few years ago. Just absolutely laughable - dude loved making 69/420 jokes so much that he somehow set himself on a path to alienate all of his customers and governmental partners for the sake of trying to become the king of memelords around the world. He will forever be the example that proves that the idea that capitalism inevitably rewards merit is bunk, because he became the world's richest man despite never advancing past the emotional level of a teenager.
 
rodoheel said:
Elon could end up losing, in various ways, the vast majority of the biggest individual fortune in the history of the world all because he got "red-pilled" by a bunch of internet trolls a few years ago. Just absolutely laughable - dude loved making 69/420 jokes so much that he somehow set himself on a path to alienate all of his customers and governmental partners for the sake of trying to become the king of memelords around the world. He will forever be the example that proves that the idea that capitalism inevitably rewards merit is bunk, because he became the world's richest man despite never advancing past the emotional level of a teenager.
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He's kind of the Howard Hughes of the social media age.
 
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