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NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025
(www.nytimes.com)
Oh boy. Thatβs bad
2025? What the absolute fuck?
What in the fuck. Can Boeing be permanently disqualified as a NASA supplier moving forward?
They're too big to fail, so they'll continue stealing from tax payers en mass until a non corporate whore does something about it.
Seize the means of production. Honestly, that private businesses have been allowed to exist has been one of the greatest mistakes in American history.
You're Boeing to die...
Welp! π
This sure sounds like they are stranded.
Sort of. It's more like the risk of returning in Starliner might be higher than 1/270, and NASA wants to be cautious.
Oh Boeing ! You've done it again, you scamps !
If theyβve made up their mind about it, I want them to bring back the empty capsule as is. Just to see what happens.
The real joke is that the can't bring back an empty capsule.
Boeing, in their infinite wisdom, decided to disable the software that would allow Starliner to undock by itself.
Despite it already having done this during its second test run.
So as of now, at least one astronaut MUST be inside the capsule to get this $6 billion space barnacle detached from the space station. They can't even send up the "rescue" ship because there wouldn't be any place for it to dock.
I think it's more that they haven't tested the software changing mode mid-mission. At least that's Scott Manley's impression(@5:50ish).
Given the software issues thus far, I can see they'd be a bit wary that flipping that switch could cause problems.
I would think they could set it back to autonomous mode but that they have to do the testing and validation to prove the system will tolerate the change with no issues.
So basically, the ISS has the equivalent of a car up on blocks parked in its driveway. How delightful.
Itβs a shame they canβt toss the responsible Boeing/NASA folks out that same airlock.
Man, just imagine you're all excited about your eight day trip into space and then finding out you might be there six months. It's a very different decision if you got to make it in advance. But then having no agency about it and just having to tough it out would be awful.
Imagine the astronauts and their families, how is it possible for this to happen just a few kilometers from the surface of the Earth? It doesn't leave much confidence in the systems we currently have available. If they can't even rescue these poor souls, let alone talk about expanding into space, occupying the Moon, going to Mars... With this news, when they talk about these topics, only we will want to laugh!
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