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To: steve86
So where are the Boeing Space Operations naysayers now?

I think that's a bit premature.

Just because we're thankful that the pilots landed the plane successfully after the door plug blew out doesn't mean we forget that the door plug blew out.

Just because the Starliner landed successfully doesn't mean we forget that 10 thrusters failed to operate during the launch and docking.

-PJ

68 posted on 09/06/2024 9:23:21 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

No damage was done to the ISS docking port during either arrival or departure and the Starliner’s reentry and touchdown was picture perfect. No complicated systems work perfectly -— at some level there s always departures from engineering norms.


72 posted on 09/06/2024 9:32:14 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carceremâ„¢)
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To: Political Junkie Too

They did for their thruster bug. On X there are a bunch of posts going after the “rave” dance thruster firing as it left the ISS. If you listened to the broadcast they said as it was far enough away they test fired all 27 thrusters in rapid sequence as a test of them. All of them worked and then they did 12 more multiple thruster burns over the next 5 min yo push back from the ISS. Later it did a 59 second deorbit with four main thrusters burning continuously and since they are not gimballed there was a slew of RCS in attitude control mode it was cool to see the thrusters working on teams to keep it in the lane. Still I would want another full flight empty before my pilot behind gets in it. I would fly in Dragon this morning of offered a ride it’s the safest orbital vehicle humans have ever designed period. Dragon has bright delta V to do a emergency parachutes fail and you are at terminal velocity even over water the Super Drago engines will bring it to a halt and soft shakedown they would be fools to delete the computer code for that contingency since they already have the fuel and engines onboard Dragon plus a drop test under their belt using that code a d engines.


78 posted on 09/06/2024 10:12:43 PM PDT by GenXPolymath
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