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arstechnica.com What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?

"If you guys don't give me a chance to repair my instrument, I'm not going back."

What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he’s not coming back?

An interesting story about a rarely discussed feature of the Space Shuttle, that lives on in the commercial crew capsules, to prevent travelers from killing everyone onboard.

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After a Space Shuttle astronaut threatened to not come back unless he had more time to work on his experiment, NASA put a padlock on the airlock door and only the mission commander had the key.
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What happens when an astronaut in orbit says he's not coming back?
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