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Boeing's Starliner has 5 'small' helium leaks as astronauts' ISS mission is extended: NASA(abcnews.go.com)

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Beaver [she/her]@lemmy.ca
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Boeing and redundancy are like oil and water

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To be fair, regarding redundancy:

The astronauts only need seven hours of “free-flight time” to perform the end-of-mission maneuvers and Starliner currently has enough helium for 70 hours of free-flight time, Boeing said.

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Boeing said

Do we really trust them at this point? I mean, if true that’s great, but they’ve lied before.

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