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Originally Posted by Bill14564 View Post
We'll have to agree to disagree.

To me, a rescue mission would have been put together as quickly as possible and would have been outside the normal mission schedule. Everything I can find says this mission was previously scheduled. *Perhaps* the equipment was switched from an unmanned supply capsule to a crew capsule, but I can't find anything to suggest that this happened.

I wonder if a true, emergency rescue mission was refused and the XXX reasons looked more like $XXB. Sure, a company would certainly accept several truckloads of money to be a hero but is that the best use of NASA's money if the astronauts can do good work while waiting for a non-emergency, scheduled mission?
I thought the astronauts chose the saver option. Musk has had things blowing up of late. Not sure when these failures were happening though.