NASA Might Delay Upcoming Crew 9 Mission to Return Stranded Starliner Astronauts to Earth

gizmodo.com ^ | August 5, 2024 | Passant Rabie

[Red Badger]

TOTAL FAILURE.......................

[Red Badger]

Ping!.......................

[MtnClimber]

I am guessing that they will bring the 2 astronauts back on the Crew 9 and try to bring Starliner back in an autonomous reentry. It will be interesting to see if Starliner makes it back in one piece.

[The Sons of Liberty]

TOTAL FAILURE.......................

Yes, but Boeing and NASA have met all of their DEI goals!

[Red Badger]

They may just crash into the sea what’s left of it after it burns up.............

[larrytown]

“The prime option today is to return Butch and Sunny on Starliner,” Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, told reporters during the July briefing. “Right now, we don’t see any reason that that wouldn’t be the case.”

If you're the 'crew manager' and you actually say this with a straight face... YOU HAVE A CAREER IN JOURNALISM!

Tired of the lies - no one with their fingers in the public till EVER tell the truth about anything.

[logi_cal869]

Correction:

Starliner MAX

/s

[Red Badger]

If I were Butch & Sonny, I would refuse to ever get back in that leaky bucket.....................

[Red Badger]

At least the door didn’t fall off.....................

[READINABLUESTATE]

1.5 Billion over budget, 4 years behind schedule and it broke right out of the box.

[Red Badger]

Isn’t Diversity wunnerful?...................

[cgbg]

NASA and Boeing—idiots and liars.

[FLT-bird]

I realize NASA wants competition and wants more than one viable competitor for launch services, but at this point its just gotten ridiculous. SpaceX has lapped Boeing so many times over that Boeing is not even remotely competitive. This one is over. Give Boeing a vote of no confidence, terminate any existing contracts unless and until they can adequately fulfill this one and look for somebody else. If that means contracting with the Japanese or the Europeans to have some viable option other than SpaceX, so be it.

[telescope115]

Those astronauts must really be pissed. I know I would be. I wonder what NASA’s response would be if both astronauts, on a public live video broadcast, resigned. I know it’s not gonna happen, but it’s just a thought.

NASA needs to quit dragging their feet and BRING THEM HOME. GET IT DONE, NASA… It’s only gonna look even worse the longer they hem and haw.

[bgill]

And the pilot didn’t somehow get lost and dock onto an alien space station. Their luggage arrived with them. They didn’t get stuck in customs and have a cavity search. But they don’t have grub hub delivery.

[logi_cal869]

But one wonders if it’s really a thruster problem which is prompting them to avoid reentry with the astronauts...

(i.e., “Are we sure that we doublechecked the sub’s work?”)

/s

[logi_cal869]

And in all seriousness, what did they do with all the MAX managers during the grounding?

They certainly didn’t oversee a new plane.

Perhaps they were assigned to Starliner...

Fits.

/s

[Red Badger]

Maybe those cheap Chinese thrusters weren’t such a good deal after all................

[logi_cal869]

They’ll blame the subs.

[Owen]

Best to be clear here, despite the embarrassment and preference.

SpaceX is not the safest option for returning the crew. Their flight hours total just isn’t there. Clearly, there are Starliner issues as well.

If there is an urgent need to return the crew, the best option is Soyuz. Might as well accept it, regardless of the politics. But as of now I suspect there is no urgency, as long as unmanned resupply still works.