I’ve been predicting SpaceX would have to get involved from the beginning..
There is video from CBS in May of moving the Starliner on a transport over the road and some sort of window covering falling off.
https://x.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1521887273406640138
Remember when some former astronauts claimed SpaceX was a dead end?
Boy, could those guys possibly have been more wrong?
Two to four...typical journalists. Crew Dragon was designed for seven it only launches 4 at a time now not because it can’t because that’s the contract amount. Dragon is also the only spacecraft ever launched with abort capabilities from engine start to orbit. At no time is there a deadmans corner in that spacecraft the umm only one ever to have that safety. Apollo once it jettisoned the launch escape rocket had to go full orbital. Dragon has its escape rockets on the ship at all times. It was originally designed to land without parachutes and those super drago rockets still can do that if nmneeded. Dragon has enough delta V to come in no parachutes at 400 meters per second and brake to zero in just the super drago alone. NASA won’t ever let them test it with humans on board but in flight testing Dragon hovered after being dropped from altitude to terminal velocity so it works.
Anyone riding on a Boeing spaceship better stay in a pressure suit, for if and when the door flies off!
To keep Spacex from taking advantage of a monopolistic position and continuing to develop technologies to reliabely deliver even more for less, NASA had to keep paying Boeing's over the top costs to fail while doing business the old way, the NASA way, so SpaceX could have a gubmint funded over-priced rival.
It's the same logic that is going to produce the next generation of high tech gizzygotches to defeat Russia, you know, like overpriced landing piers that fall appart when ocean breezes start blowing and waves start rolling.
I don't think people fully realize how incompetent government breaucracies living in the "National Capitol Region" have become. They cannot do anything.
I wonder if it’s time to buy Boeing stock and short it?
The bureaucrats if NASA would rather sacrifice two astronauts than rescue using SpaceX.
Rumor has it that their 737 Engineers were transferred to solve the problem.
Sure, it can get them back to earth at any time.
The question is whether they will be alive at that point.
Boeing discovered the astronauts are also whistleblowers. They won’t be coming home.
that this is a POS, Boeing risked those astronaut’s life to save face. NASA should ask for a freaking refund.
DEI strikes again?