<story><title>What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he&apos;s not coming back?</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wantsanagent</author><text>If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize:&lt;p&gt;Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn&amp;#x27;t work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens &amp;#x27;not to come back&amp;#x27;, goes into a depression, worries crew that he&amp;#x27;ll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working.&lt;p&gt;There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with mental health while on a mission, but that&amp;#x27;s the basic plot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeoAtreides</author><text>&amp;gt; If you hate the format of these kinds of article&lt;p&gt;You mean long-form articles? &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Long-form_journalism&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Long-form_journalism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think the problem is with the format, but with your expectations. Somehow you were expecting a straight answer to the question in the title; instead, it&amp;#x27;s a detailed look into the incident and the context around it.</text></comment>
<story><title>What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he&apos;s not coming back?</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wantsanagent</author><text>If you hate the format of these kinds of article let me summarize:&lt;p&gt;Guy builds an experiment, flies it, it doesn&amp;#x27;t work, requests more time to get it working, is denied, threatens &amp;#x27;not to come back&amp;#x27;, goes into a depression, worries crew that he&amp;#x27;ll open the door to space, eventually granted more time to work on the experiment, gets it working.&lt;p&gt;There are consequences for letting this kind of person fly and dealing with mental health while on a mission, but that&amp;#x27;s the basic plot.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>misnome</author><text>And “They added a lock to the exit hatch”&lt;p&gt;For a good portion of this article I thought the answer was “We don’t know”. It ambles around so leisurely and stop-start that it feels like reading ChatGPT output.</text></comment>