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Boeing Starliner historic crewed launch delayed again indefinitely
CNN via MSN ^ | 5/22/24 | Celina Chakraborty

Posted on 05/22/2024 8:02:52 AM PDT by hoagy62

Saturday target date for the highly anticipated crewed maiden voyage of Boeing’s Starliner is now off the table — and NASA has not immediately named a new one. “The team has been in meetings for two consecutive days, assessing flight rationale, system performance, and redundancy,” NASA said in a statement. “There is still forward work in these areas, and the next possible launch opportunity is still being discussed.”

The update comes after several previous delays this month, and a week after Starliner mission teams reported a small helium leak in the service module of the spacecraft. They traced the leak to a part called a flange on a single reaction control system thruster, where helium is used to allow the thrusters to fire.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boeing; helium; nasa; starliner; whatcouldgowrong
Given the recent garbage that's been happening with Boeing, I'm pretty sure NASA is very worried about What might happen to the Starliner somewhere along it's flight.

On a personal opinion level, Can you imagine the stink that would happen if the astronauts told NASA "UUnless you can prove that this capsule was built by White, well-educated American Workers, not DEI rejects, we ain't getting on it"

1 posted on 05/22/2024 8:02:52 AM PDT by hoagy62
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To: hoagy62

If it’s Boeing, you ain’t going..................


2 posted on 05/22/2024 8:04:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: hoagy62

DEI.


3 posted on 05/22/2024 8:05:12 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: hoagy62

Don’t go you’ll never get back


4 posted on 05/22/2024 8:07:19 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: hoagy62
Can you imagine the stink that would happen if the astronauts told NASA "Unless you can prove that this capsule was built by White, well-educated American Workers, not DEI rejects, we ain't getting on it"

probably cause a huge debate over who will be the first to fly it...


5 posted on 05/22/2024 8:08:45 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: hoagy62

I’m not sure I would want to get launched into space by anything designed and built by Boeing.


6 posted on 05/22/2024 8:09:23 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Do the math. L+G+B+T+Q = 666)
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And that really is… no joke.


7 posted on 05/22/2024 8:16:09 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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Starliner is a cut corner piece of junk


8 posted on 05/22/2024 8:17:45 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: hoagy62

Why am I getting bad flashbacks to Komarov and Soyuz 1?

9 posted on 05/22/2024 8:17:47 AM PDT by Jonah Hex
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If the astronauts we are sending into space are of DEI standards and qualifications, shouldn’t the spacecraft we send them into space be of similar insight, design, manufacturing and assembly? Almost forgot to include quality control.


10 posted on 05/22/2024 8:23:47 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: hoagy62
"Excuses are tools of incompetence used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness, and those who use them seldom specialize in
anything else."

-Vernon Brundage Jr.

11 posted on 05/22/2024 8:27:07 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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"Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?" -- Alan Shepard
12 posted on 05/22/2024 9:00:15 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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I wish Boeing would get their act together and get Starliner up to specs. Although I am a big fan of SpaceX I love the idea of multiple producers of space vehicles.


13 posted on 05/22/2024 7:03:55 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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