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Maybe? Soyuz is too cramped, but Dragon might be able to fit extra people. A few years ago a NASA astronaut flew up on a leaky Soyuz, so they looked at using Dragon as a lifeboat:

https://www.space.com/nasa-spacex-dragon-rescue-spacecraft-soyuz-leak

Dragon was drawn up to fit 7 people, with 3 seats on the bottom and 4 on top. They ended up changing the seat angles for reentry, so now they only have 4.

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Starliner is still their emergency ride home in case a real alarm goes off, but they want to study the leak issue as much as possible before they separate their service module, which burns up during reentry.

Realistically, there's a SpaceX Dragon docked to the ISS, so that's probably their emergency shelter and ride home.

This process led to Falcon, which is one of the most reliable rockets of all time. The launch rate and reuse are unprecedented. Iterative design is a big part of how they got there. Their prowess in manufacturing and mass production is another large part of that success.

Good ole egulatory capture

It sounds like they still have some hope of bringing it back, so, fingers crossed.

It looks like more Venus probes will start launching over the next few years. There's the Rocket Lab / MIT mission first, then more from the US, China, India, and Russia to close out the decade. Plus ESA's next probe in 2032.

I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed

Milwaukeeans were already not going to be happy to deal with these people. If the event gets extra putschy now... uff da.

We've been trained to keep our expectations so, so low

Better than nothing. Hopefully this prevents some deaths.

And it will hallucinate and give wrong answers

I think Jared Isaacman is my favorite space billionaire? Not that that should be a thing, but he's at least spending his money on private missions that move technology development forward.

I'm rooting for Stoke and Radian to pull off full launch vehicle reuse.

I really want to see space agencies put out orbital debris cleanup bounties, especially for big things like spent upper stages and dead satellites.