[ProtectOurFreedom]

Meanwhile, Musk has sent manned missions into space. What a Boeing clusterfark.

[nwrep]

Long live DEI.

[HIDEK6]

DEI.

[Sertorius]

This isn’t your daddy’s apollo 13.

[moovova]

Sounds like...if it’s Boeing, they ain’t going.

[Magnum44]

An old aviator adage:

I’d rather be down here wishing i was up there
than up there wishing I was down here...

[HYPOCRACY]

“We’ve learned that our helium system is not performing as designed,” Mark Nappi, Boeing’s Starliner program manager, said at a news conference on June 18.

You mean it wasn’t designed to leak helium?

[MinorityRepublican]

BOEING!

[Reno89519]

They are going to have to pay SpaceX to recover the Boeing crew and let that capsule get parked or go down remotely.

[Leaning Right]

Old method: Hire the best people possible.
New method: Hire the most diverse people possible.

We see this in industry, education, medicine, basic research, etc.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Lazamataz]

Write those astronauts off. They are as good as dead.

[Magnum44]

and the window for a return flight is closing

[catnipman]

if it’s Boeing, they ain’t going ...

[catnipman]

“We’ve learned that our helium system is not performing as designed,”

too bad they didn’t “discover” that BEFORE they stranded their astronauts in space ...

[38special]

Fake news. The whole month of July is a window for return.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Boeing makes flying death traps, but at least their work force is diverse.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Some are calling it the Stuckliner.

I’m calling it the Leakliner.

Then some are calling it the Stuckleaker.

[Clay Moore]

Time to bust out the movie “Marooned” and watch it again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marooned_(1969_film)

[V_TWIN]

Send up the A team.....SPACEX

[Alberta's Child]

There’s a reason why the Russians have been using the same ancient rocket and capsule designs for space missions for 50+ years.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

[Thunder 6]

Editor’s note: NASA announced on Friday that Starliner’s troubleshooting has been extended for a third time, meaning that the astronauts will stay aboard the International Space Station indefinitely until some time in July.

well editor, which is it? “indefinitely” or “some time in July”?