[Red Badger]

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

[Red Badger]

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

[The Sons of Liberty]

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

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

[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

[READINABLUESTATE]

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

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

90 days is all the Starliner can do in space, and that's if everything's working right. Boeing's in a bind -- they want the ground tests to verify that it's safe to fly, but instead the ground tests have only identified the problems, and these are all things that should have been figured out during engineering and development.

If they send the craft down with a crew in it, there's a good likelihood that the crew will die in one or more of the failures, and the scuttlebutt is that manual or partially manual reentry will no longer be an option.

If they send the craft back to Earth uncrewed and it fails (as seems likely) NASA will have to suspend the contract for the crewed flights until the craft (already delayed a few years) has its bugs ironed out.

If uncrewed automated landing (propulsive, on land) actually succeeds, sending the crew down in a different craft -- by a competitor -- will have been the right move but make them look like they can't get the job done.

Of course, if they send the crew aboard Starliner for return to Earth and it works, it will look more like gambling with their lives than it will look like a success.

[2nd Amendment]

3 hour cruise

[cpdiii]

Despite several technical mishaps that have delayed Starliner’s return to Earth, NASA has continuously insisted that the vehicle is capable of carrying the crew back

If so, why has it not carried the two astronauts back?