Rescued astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore reveal failures on the Boeing Starliner were far dire than originally reported

NY Post ^ | April 3, 2025, | Anna Young

[Tucker39]

Someone is puzzled by the obviously proud nickname, Suni.

[dagunk]

Space shuttle Columbia.

Technical people said “no”.
Managers said “yes”.

We got lucky this time - didn’t lose anybody.

[Myrddin]

I’ve stopped flying years ago.

Yup. Last flight was September 2017 to San Diego. I had one lined up on my birthday in August 2019 to Washington, DC when my wife had a seizure at 2:17 AM (my flight was 7:00 AM). Needless to say, I missed the flight. It was a long night at the hospital.

My last trip to San Diego for a 50th high school reunion was accomplished by driving my F150 from Pocatello to San Diego. In years past, I would do that in about 14 hours door to door. I opted for a hotel room midway in each direction. It was still cheaper than flying.

[Bobalu]

[SaveFerris]

(prior to takeoff)

They KNEW before launch

It was reported here - I was saying DON’T LAUNCH - it was so obviously dangerous

[yldstrk]

What, just let them die?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, that was a lot closer call than we ever knew. We almost lost that crew.

NASA/Boeing vs. SpaceX! But ALL must HATE Elon Musk!

[yldstrk]

Boeing needs to get its act together.

[catnipman]

NASA needs to be severely DOGEd ...

[larrytown]

Just taking the article at face value.

I guess a ‘mandate’ really isn’t a mandate, much less a rule.

They put a crew on a ship that had not performed a ‘clean run’, and ran into the same issues as the previous attempt - and ended up using the same REMOTE process to “FIX” the issue.

What did anyone learn from this? Nothing.

Except perhaps that a GOVERNMENT space program, needed a POLITICAL WIN in the face of serious private enterprise competition, put two people at risk (in a yet-unproven vehicle) in order to show a ‘manned spaceflight’ success.

NASA is showing why it’s an obsolete fixture of the Cold War space race.

[cableguymn]

Now we have to worry about being hit from parts or the whole damn thing falling out of the sky.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Whoever would believe the lowly thruster, with decades of experience, would be the issue.

It reminds me of Chevrolet having major brake problems on their 1980 X cars.

[ridesthemiles]

THAT SHIP HAS SAILED-—YEARS AGO

[ridesthemiles]

GOOD THING PENSKE DOESN’T RUN HIS RACE TEAMS WITH THE SAME THINKING

[RckyRaCoCo]

Just think, if Elon supported democrats...he'd probably be treated like G_d by the left with his "green energy" projects...instead the left are keying his cars(raising insurance prices) and setting them on fire (polluting the air).

...and they call us unhinged neanderthals?

[Resolute Conservative]

I guess there is no cut-off but NASA says age range is 27-46 with average being 39.

[Mark17]

3 hour tour!

But Gilligan didn’t go on to space. Can you imagine all those fruitcakes up there?

[yldstrk]

Whoever would believe the lowly thruster, with decades of experience, would be the issue.
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Careless stupidity.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

NASA/Boeing vs. SpaceX! But ALL must HATE Elon Musk!

Not 'must' but, do. Boeing folks passionately hate the fact that SpaceX had to rescue the astronauts.

[BenLurkin]