@blazerrose@Space_Station@SpaceX No pilot required... But it is the only life boat for its 4 original crew so they all have to go back.
Same situation when they reposition a crew capsule to a different docking port. The entire crew id in the capsule, in case something goes wrong and it somehow fails to redock.
@AlexCrawfordSky Israel even prevented western journalists, travelling on the planes dropping aid over Gaza, from filming out of the windows or the rear cargo door.
@JamesVictorino2 @Commercial_Crew From a previous press conference: they flew a different flight profile and kept the thrusters pointing at the sun too long inducing heating which they hadn't anticipated during ground stress testing of the thrusters. Only the 2nd test flight counts, the 1st failed early on
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