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[โ€“] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly SpaceX probably has one on standby right now.

[โ€“] mercano@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe. There are only four Crew Dragons. Oneโ€™s attached to the station right now, and oneโ€™s had its docking equipment removed in preparation for the spacewalk on the Polaris Dawn mission. That leaves two. Iโ€™m sure oneโ€™s already in prep for the next regularly scheduled crew rotation. A rescue mission would mean either leaving two of the astronauts scheduled to fly that flight on the ground to leave open seats for the Starliner crew, or a special mission using the last Dragon.

[โ€“] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on how the Starliner leaks progress, I might be fine with lying on the floor of a Cargo Dragon.

[โ€“] mercano@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Originally they had planned on two more seats in the Crew Dragon behind / below the commander and pilot, but when they switched from a powered land landing to a parachute splashdown, they had to adjust the angles of the seats & the travel in the seat suspension. Those changes required them to drop the second row of seats.

[โ€“] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Originally they had planned on two more seats

I think the original design had three seats in the second row, for a total of seven.