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Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
Gizmodo ^ | June 12, 2024 | Passant Rabie

Posted on 06/13/2024 5:12:45 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

5 leaks. The leaks must be diverse in nature.


61 posted on 06/13/2024 6:44:20 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Red Badger

5 leaks. 1 leak each from each marginalized group.


62 posted on 06/13/2024 6:45:37 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: srmanuel

I don’t see why not. The Crew Dragon is designed to carry four people , but only two are required to fly it. It just depends on how quickly they can switch out a current payload to Dragon capsule.


63 posted on 06/13/2024 6:47:07 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: srmanuel

There is a Crew Dragan Module docked at the space station now. If needed the two stranded crew members can hitch a ride back with them.


64 posted on 06/13/2024 6:47:56 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: Bayard
Re: "Diversity built"

My own take is that someone, or some group, is shorting Boeing stock.

Or - a hostile foreign country is deliberately disrupting business at Boeing because Boeing is the second largest USA defense contractor.

The amount of detailed information that is instantly released about Boeing planes and the Boeing ISS Shuttle is completely unprecedented.

This all started with the four Muslim pilots who crashed two Boeing 737 MAX planes in Ethiopia and Indonesia.

Before those two crashes, the exact same plane flew 60,000 flights in Europe, North America, Aus-NZ, Japan, and the Persian Gulf, without even one incident report concerning the software that allegedly killed several hundred people.

65 posted on 06/13/2024 6:48:07 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Uh, no. The helium is used to pressurize the fuel and oxidizer tanks because it's inert to both fuel and oxidizer.

Starliner burns monomethyl hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide.

66 posted on 06/13/2024 6:48:51 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: jmcenanly

Crew Dragon 2 can hold 7 passengers.


67 posted on 06/13/2024 6:52:06 AM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Re: "Hydrazine thrusters"

Is helium more "leaky" because its most common isotope, two protons and two neutrons, is so small?

68 posted on 06/13/2024 7:05:37 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: zeestephen

That’s my understanding. Like hydrogen molecules.


69 posted on 06/13/2024 7:09:23 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Red Badger

I know.


70 posted on 06/13/2024 7:25:28 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: Campion

But burning hydrazine contradicts the author’s statement “Helium is used in the spacecraft’s thruster systems to allow the thrusters to fire without being combustible or toxic.”


71 posted on 06/13/2024 7:30:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Red Badger

there was a strange noise in the front of the truck and a thump-thump-thump that shook the cab.

My mom did that with her 1981 Monte Carlo one winter/spring day. Same thing, except the cat was cut up, but still alive. She put it in the car, took it to the vet, and saved its life. Tom, as he was later named, became a garage kitty for the rest of his life. She also started knocking on the hood 3-4 times as she walked to the drivers door to get in, to wake up and scare any kitties (or other animals) that crawled in the compartment for warmth.


72 posted on 06/13/2024 7:41:29 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: MNnice

“Remember: This Equipment Was Provided By The Lowest Bidder”

Not for Boeing and NASA. It was awarded to the highest bidder with the most diverse workplace and the most politically connected.


73 posted on 06/13/2024 8:55:21 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I would love to know how helium keeps them from being toxic. And I would like to know ‘toxic to what? They are only fired in a vacuum.


74 posted on 06/13/2024 1:36:06 PM PDT by Bryan24
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To: Red Badger

Deploy the MuskPod and get ‘em back home quick. The ISS is also an orbiting disaster waiting to happen, way past its operating expiry.


75 posted on 06/13/2024 2:03:59 PM PDT by Patriot777 ("When you see these things begin to happen, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.")
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To: Red Badger


76 posted on 06/13/2024 3:01:00 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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77 posted on 06/13/2024 3:06:29 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Bryan24

Unused propellant when the spacecraft comes back to earth is toxic to ground crews. That is why you always saw Shuttle ground crews in full hazmat suits.


78 posted on 06/13/2024 3:48:53 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

If we only had 1960s technology and those black women geniuses to do all the math for our space missions, we’d be soooo much better off!

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and engineers in charge....


79 posted on 06/13/2024 3:51:42 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: Red Badger

could be the seals and not the valves them selves
boeing keeps recycling the valves.


80 posted on 06/13/2024 4:31:07 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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