Posted on 08/22/2024 1:46:23 PM PDT by george76
Boeing Starliner program manager Mark Nappi ... it's no surprise that the company's Starliner crewed flight test is taking longer than expected — so far, almost ten times longer than expected. NASA astronauts Butch Williams and Suni Wilmore are on Day 77 of their eight-day stay aboard the International Space Station.
Nappi says he regrets not doing a better job of managing expectations.
"I think we all knew that it was going to go longer than that.. We didn’t spend a lot of time talking about how much longer, but I think it’s my regret that we didn’t just say ‘We’re going to stay up there until we get everything done that we want to go do.'"
What a crock of you-know-what.
There's a lot more at stake than merely deferring a discussion about how long Starliner's crewed flight test might take. At issue are little, multimillion-dollar details like Starliner hogging one of the ISS's very few docking ports. There are staffing issues, too — SpaceX's Crew-9 mission has been delayed by five weeks and its crew potentially reduced to two from four. Let's not forget that every bit of food and water on board the ISS has to be brought up from Earth at about $60 million per cargo run — and Butch & Suni's needs have increased from eight days, now to 77 days, possibly to as long as eight months.
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2014, SpaceX received $2.6 billion to develop Crew Dragon, which has been flying manned missions since 2020. That same year — approximately 1.6 times longer until now than it took for Apollo to land men on the moon — Boeing won $4.2 billion to develop Starliner, and it has yet to successfully complete a single manned mission.
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Disgraceful. This will not end well. Boeing and NASA clearly do not have the caliber of people who brought Apollo 13 back home. Boeing has had been working on repairs using a star liner capsule on the ground now for weeks, and it won’t fix. No matter how many times they’ve tried. It looks like SpaceX or nothing.
But hey, Boeing has an engineer with green hair and piercings, so there’s that.
Some true pioneer engineers back in the day....
Reminds me of the HBO show about the luxury spaceliner that gets diverted in a long path around the solar system, so a trip that was supposed to be a few weeks turns into a few years. And then the crew tries to gaslight all the passengers into thinking everything is fine.
DEI can lead to DIE.
Maybe he should regret not doing a better job of building a quality spacecraft.
How was he supposed to "manage expectations"?
"Boss, I expect it to fail on orbit. If it doesn't fail and we get it back to earth in one piece, that will be an unexpected bonus! But don't be surprised when it fails."He sounds like a typical whiny lib -- "we need to improve our messaging."
Lots of H1-b Visa holders too.
it is not the capsule that is the problem, its the service module that has the thruster issue and the helium leaks.
What specificly is the problem? A leak, or a malfunction in the attitude jets? Or is it both? Did one cause the other or are they separate issues?
How about an EVA? Would visual inspection do any good? Do they have the tools to repair it?
If the issue(s) is resolved, do you have enough Helium left for return? Can it be refilled?
Is it true that the vehicle's software can't be programmed for unmanned reentry?
Is it true that you can't undock the capsule without someone being in it?
This is all stuff I read online. How much is true?
“The root cause behind the Starliner thruster failures”
hypergolic propellants
That seals fail to keep separated.
What did they tell the astronauts before they sent them up there?
I think we all know the answer.
Never ask professional liars questions—unless you already know the answers.
And to think we sent men to the moon and brought them home with nothing more than this technology. How far has this nation really fallen? An eight bit byte, just zeroes and ones.
When was Fortran 4 released?
Fortran - Wikipedia
FORTRAN IV was eventually released in 1962, first for the IBM 7030 (”Stretch”) computer, followed by versions for the IBM 7090, IBM 7094, and later for the IBM 1401 in 1966. By 1965, FORTRAN IV was supposed to be compliant with the standard being developed by the American Standards Association X3.
I was with a contractor assigned to crew systems during the Apollo/Soyuz and Skylab missions. When Skylab relived itself of one solar panel and about 1/2 of it’s insulation. It was all hands on deck. It didn’t have to be a open memo but the attitude was we didn’t care if you were a aerospace engineer or the janitor,all ideas and suggestions were valid and deserved consideration.
Not saying we need to go back to that. My hair is long now but I would still wear a white shirt with skinny black tie.
America doesn’t have the “right stuff” anymore. Imagine what ‘60s NASA and the associated aerospace companies could have done with today’s technology? It’s the people who are failing the technology and the progress. Musk is the outlier.
I wore those white shirts and skinny black ties, it felt like I was in an exclusive club, when I first walked into Mission Control I felt I was on Hallowed ground, and I was!
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