They don’t want to admit that it’s too dangerous to risk using it. They’re stuck in the sunk cost fallacy.
ioncloud9 on
I doubt starliner will ever fly an operational mission.
mcs5280 on
They will rename it as CST-47 and secure unlimited funding!
Justthetip74 on
Just shut it down. Boeing gives an official apology to taxpayers and everyones happy amd safe.
“Starliner had flown to within a stone’s throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only they could reach it. But already, the failure of so many thrusters violated the mission’s flight rules. In such an instance, they were supposed to turn around and come back to Earth. Approaching the station was deemed too risky for Wilmore and Williams, aboard Starliner, as well as for the astronauts on the $100 billion space station.
But what if it was not safe to come home, either?
“I don’t know that we can come back to Earth at that point,” Wilmore said in an interview. “I don’t know if we can. And matter of fact, I’m thinking we probably can’t.”
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They don’t want to admit that it’s too dangerous to risk using it. They’re stuck in the sunk cost fallacy.
I doubt starliner will ever fly an operational mission.
They will rename it as CST-47 and secure unlimited funding!
Just shut it down. Boeing gives an official apology to taxpayers and everyones happy amd safe.
“Starliner had flown to within a stone’s throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only they could reach it. But already, the failure of so many thrusters violated the mission’s flight rules. In such an instance, they were supposed to turn around and come back to Earth. Approaching the station was deemed too risky for Wilmore and Williams, aboard Starliner, as well as for the astronauts on the $100 billion space station.
But what if it was not safe to come home, either?
“I don’t know that we can come back to Earth at that point,” Wilmore said in an interview. “I don’t know if we can. And matter of fact, I’m thinking we probably can’t.”
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/