NASA plans unpiloted Starliner test flight after astronauts got stuck at space station in 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-boeing-starliner-unpiloted-test-flight/
NASA plans unpiloted Starliner test flight after astronauts got stuck at space station in 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-boeing-starliner-unpiloted-test-flight/
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It’s tough to even talk about Starliner without the conversation expanding to the institutional rot at Boeing.
Can the spacecraft be fixed without fixing the culture of the company? Probably, yeah, with enough focused effort and funding. But I don’t think Starliner will ever be *good* without fixing the company, it will never be produced cheap enough or turned around fast enough to be real competition for SpaceX.
I predict Starliner will only ever get just good enough as a system for NASA to suffer through it in the name of operational redundancy.
How close was Starliner to actually floating off in to space uncontrollably and killing the two astronauts?
I guess any more than 0.0000% is way too fucking close.
I’m fully on board with this. Despite the setbacks, Boeing has been incrementally improving under their new CEO, who’s actually an engineer.
I wouldn’t get in anything made by Boeing.
It’s had 3 test flights, none of which were complete successes and two that really were failures.
Why doesn’t NASA just give up already!? They clearly have lost the entire plot. Maybe they need to partner with a company that actually *can* reach space.
I get what they are trying to do is extremely hard. What they have done is extremely hard. After the max 9, way they handled it and then starliner being an absolute failure and almost stranding astronauts in orbit, I have zero faith in this company.