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Boeing & NASA admit multiple anomalies on Starliner mission
nasaspaceflight.com ^ | February 7, 2020 | Chris Gebhart

Posted on 02/13/2020 10:48:56 AM PST by Rio

After saying for weeks the spacecraft and systems performed “as designed” after recovering from a Mission Elapsed Timer issue just 31 minutes after launch and point-blank saying that no other anomalies occurred on the mission, Boeing and NASA have now admitted that two more serious issues — one of which could have led to the Loss Of Vehicle — occurred during Starliner’s first mission.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: boeing; nasa; starliner; ulaisforsale
Seems like nothing is going right for Boeing lately
1 posted on 02/13/2020 10:48:57 AM PST by Rio
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Nobody called me to help straighten things out. Guess they'll have elon fix it. 😁🚀
2 posted on 02/13/2020 10:51:57 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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$13 a hour foreign engineers: outer space edition.


3 posted on 02/13/2020 10:55:23 AM PST by NorseViking
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It appears that SpaceX has begun preparations for its first manned flight of the Dragon 2 capsule in May 2020.


4 posted on 02/13/2020 10:55:54 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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They have increased their diversity though!


5 posted on 02/13/2020 11:08:23 AM PST by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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“According to NASA and Boeing in the Friday afternoon teleconference, the second software issue was caught just hours before it would have destroyed Starliner when it attempted to reenter the atmosphere.

“Of note, Boeing’s Mr. Chilton seemed to disagree that Starliner would have been destroyed had the second software error not been found.”

https://jobs.boeing.com/diversity


6 posted on 02/13/2020 11:21:00 AM PST by bkopto
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Language barrier?


7 posted on 02/13/2020 11:37:48 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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Congressional funding is based upon meeting schedule.

Testing is costly and time consuming, so, testing is the first thing to get cut.

Why?

Because contractors have to produce an inordinate paper trail to answer questions from unqualified NASA managers.

8 posted on 02/13/2020 11:37:52 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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They’ve adopted “non-rigorous” AA engineering principles, as advocated by some in engineering education at Purdue University.


9 posted on 02/13/2020 11:50:58 AM PST by libstripper
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#8 Microsoft fired all of it’s QA people.
I assume Boeing is doing the same so the ceo can have a bigger golden parachute when he leaves after a couple of airplanes crash and kill hundreds of people.

Microsoft claims 10 million ‘fans’ help it test Windows 10, but it’s sure got a funny definition of that word
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/246685-microsoft-claims-10-million-fans-help-test-windows-10-but-its-sure-got-a-funny-definition-of-that-word


10 posted on 02/13/2020 12:24:22 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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“...#8 Microsoft fired all of it’s QA people. ...”

Did it ever do QA?


11 posted on 02/13/2020 12:26:59 PM PST by Reily
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...Mission Elapsed Timer issue...

Holy crap! How difficult can timer be? They should use the one from the Apollo mission.

12 posted on 02/13/2020 2:41:24 PM PST by GingisK
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