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Got_Bent ,

Shitty Boeing aside, how are they eating up there? I don’t know anything about space station food logistics, but if a planned week has turned into ten weeks, surely there must be a resource strain.

Mythnubb ,

I was curious about this same thing.

mihnt ,

Don’t they have their own version of MREs they use for situations like this?

0x0 ,

Three Starliner mission managers had key roles on Columbia’s ill-fated final flight.

I was gonna take issue with that statement until i read this. Causality does seem more probable.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

This is an excellent article. I’m glad they took time to go into the history of these folks.

Australis13 ,

The crew should come back on the Dragon and Boeing be required to solve the problems and carry out another test flight. It is unacceptable that Boeing wants to bring the astronauts back without understanding some of the failures on the Starliner.

YourAvgMortal ,

I’m sure they understand the problems, and they understand that solving them would eat into their profits

cmnybo ,

Another test flight will be a bit of a problem. There are no spare Atlas V rockets. They will either have to convince Amazon to give up one of theirs or they will have to launch one of the missions on Vulcan Centaur, which is not currently crew rated.

HejMedDig ,

In this particular situation, if Boeing says it’s safe, I would be inclined to trust them, because if they make the return happen, and it fails, Boeing is done fore. As a crew member though, I would pass for sure and wait for a Dragon

riodoro1 ,

How many people died because boeing made shitty planes and didn’t train their crew properly?

Is boeing done for?

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

They get one last chance! If they kill these astronauts this time, we’ll be really, really mad like for real!

cordlesslamp ,

Don’t worry, we have enough tax payer’s money to bail them out if anything goes wrong.

/s

RangerJosie ,

Step 1. Fire Boeing.

Step 2. Fucking FUND NASA.

Step 3. NASA builds space stuff that works.

jeffw OP ,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

To be fair, some work has always been outsourced.

Like the o rings…

BrundleFly2077 ,

Dark 😮

AlexanderESmith ,

Damn man... Fuckin'... oof...

aeronmelon ,

I like my humor like I like my NASA space vehicles - outsourced to the lowest bidder.

Wanderer ,

NASA contracting stuff to space X has probably be the most amazing and sound financial decision they have made.

People on this website are so biased because Elon runs it but he genuinely built one of the most amazing companies in the world. Government including the US are miles behind them and struggling to play catch up and they are only trying because Space X has become so much better than them they have to.

SkaveRat ,

It’s arguably not even him that it really running it

Wanderer ,

Don’t care. He built the company, he’s the face of it. People hate the company and live in a dreamland where it’s failing because they want what Elon owns to be shit.

It isn’t and they are wrong because they can’t see past their bias.

vanontom ,
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Yes, Musk has made people hate anything he’s involved in, or that enriches him. It’s only natural; Actions have consequences. He’s a severely mentally ill billionaire, increasingly detached from reality. And now his politics and disinformation are a danger to millions of people. If SpaceX or Tesla wants to feel the love, they know what to do. Until then, I can only assume they accept the consequences.

mbirth ,

Step 4. NASA builds planes that work (on the side).

Plastic_Ramses ,

Well… except for those times it didn’t.

Id argue that nasa is responsible for more deaths than the privately owned companies attempting the same thing.

mox ,

The question facing NASA’s leadership today? Should the two astronauts return to Earth from the International Space Station in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, with its history of thruster failures and helium leaks, or should they come home on a SpaceX Dragon capsule?

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

The question facing NASA’s leadership today? Should the two astronauts return to Earth…

“Alright, just hear me out…” -Boeing

0x0 ,

The lives of two government employees are in the balance, and taxpayers paid Boeing for most of the Starliner spacecraft’s development costs.

Money money money…

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