My Aged Uncle Has Finally Gotten out of His Chair. Now We’ll See If He Can Find the Kitchen
According to Reuters, the reusable gumdrop-shaped Boeing Starliner capsule (playing the part of my aged uncle in this melodrama) and its crew have a rendezvous with the International Space Station. It is scheduled sometime today to dock autonomously with the ISS, which orbits some 250 miles (400 km) above Earth. But then, you know how schedules go with Boeing, and I’m glad my fanny isn’t one of the two on board.
I’ll type as quickly as my two fingers can to complete this first chapter before finding out there is no second.
Uncle had tried and tried to get out of his chair, but mostly to no avail
God knows it hasn’t been for lack of resources. So far, our government has coughed up $4.2 billion and Starliner is more than $1.5 billion over budget, as well as several years behind its delivery date. My aging uncle has couch-sores on his backside and his memory of the kitchen is fading.
While uncle’s mission is far from over, he and his caregiver need to eventually make it back to Earth (or the…