Posted on 03/29/2025 7:25:40 AM PDT by Salman
NASA says Boeing's Starliner – dubbed the Calamity Capsule – could fly again, but not before the end of 2025 or start of 2026.
The CST-100 Starliner capsule returned to Earth last year with its tail between its legs. It was the capsule's first crewed mission, but the flight was dogged with issues, including problems with thrusters. Managers eventually decided that the safest course of action was to leave the crew on the International Space Station (ISS).
The vehicle made a successful landing without a crew, and in the months since, NASA and Boeing tried to work out what went wrong and how to fix it.
According to NASA, "more than 70 percent of flight observations and flight anomalies" have been closed. However, the space agency noted that "the major in-flight propulsion system anomalies Starliner experienced in orbit are expected to remain open further into 2025."
Neither NASA nor Boeing responded to a request from The Register regarding what that "more than 70 percent" actually was. ...
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Perhaps it should be dubbed the Starship Minnow making a three hour tour to space.
do clowns attempt to get high on the helium leaks
that are everywhere on their ships,
thinking it is nitrous oxide?
I don’t trust Boeing to make a go cart.
Wise choice with this WOKE and DEI shit. They bury those who do trust them.
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Hire SpaceX to redesign it
I saw NASA videos of all the Diversity working on Starliner
I understand that Boeing is hiring engineers away from Lockheed to help design and build the F-47.
Let’s see..
They took the drawings from the Apollo program, updated and modernized the drawings and STILL got it wrong!!!
“I understand that Boeing is hiring engineers away from Lockheed to help design and build the F-47.”
Adhering to DEI rules I would imagine.
Remind me of the time as a teenager that I took my old Pontiac Tempest to the local mechanic. He asked me to pop the hood and he said “I see the problem.” He took off my radiator cap and said “this radiator cap needs a new car”.
“I see the problem.” He took off my radiator cap and said “this radiator cap needs a new car”.
That’s funny! A Tempest was an almost GTO and could be a very cool car.
It was a 1965 Tempest Custom. Tempest grill, Le Mans tail lights. 326 engine. It was sweet. Sadly, in ‘77, I was T-boned by a drunk and the car was totaled.
‘According to NASA, “more than 70 percent of flight observations and flight anomalies” have been closed.’ If I’m an astronaut, it’s that near 30 percent that I’m concerned about.
Nothing new. Engineers have always migrated from one contract to another. Going from where there isn’t work to where there is work is a good idea.
NASA (and Boeing) have finally reached the end of their rope, having fully embraced DEI and the consequent results ... i suspect that the best and brightest now flock to SpaceX, and the rejects wind up in NASA and Boeing ...
REALLY excellent engineers and scientists detest working in an environment in which all workers are forced to be no better than the lowest intellect ... you know, “equity” and all of that other corrosive bullshit ...
no doubt, Chinese leadership laugh their kollective asses off at the West first thing every morning when they arise from bed ...
the Communists used to proclaim that the West would manufacture the rope that would used to hang themselves with, but little did anyone know at that time that said rope would be DEI™ branded rope ...
Boing will be fine, if they fire everyone and start over.
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