That’s not good. Hopefully there can be a rescue mission if need be.Also Boeing needs to stop fing up. They keep killing people…
I’m sure SpaceX will happily arrange for a rescue mission at Boeing’s expense!
This also might be the thing the first astronauts warned us about a private space industry. Sure, they can innovate faster and cheaper, but not as safely. There’s a 60 minutes interview with musk crying because his astronaut idols didn’t see eye to eye with him on privatizing space.
It is not the first time that Boeing did something space-related for the military or NASA. The big difference is that while on earlier contracts they just asked for more money time and again, this time they are on a fixed budget and have to show results before getting paid.
And they cannot claim it was not enough money to get people up and down safely. From the same pot, SpaceX got about half as much as Boeing got. Boeing cried foul about this “wasting” money on an unexperienced upstart! And now look where both companies are with their project: SpaceX is happily going up and down like an elevator, and Boeing, with twice the money and years of delay, launched people into space with a known-defekt spaceship.
This article seems to be playing up the idea that the astronauts are in some sort of danger, but NASA has repeatedly stressed that is not the case. These extensions are for research and information gathering, so improvements can be made that properly address the issue in the future.
I’ve also lost trust in Boeing, but a lot of the reporting surrounding this mission is starting to get annoying. It almost feels like they want a disaster just so they can write about it.
I like this article on the most recent docking extension more. https://www.space.com/starliner-astronaut-mission-landing-delay-july-2024
Nonsense. They aren’t stranded and could leave right now if they needed to. The part they are collecting data on isn’t even made to reenter anyways. They aren’t in any danger and they still have plenty of docking time left.
So, the people who were contempting of the “insignificance” of all those leaks … were actually correct?
How startling!
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No, they aren’t correct. The leaks are still insignificant, and this article is sensationalizing a pretty mundane reason for the return trip delay. They’re only “stranded” insofar as NASA wants more time to collect data, and the spacewalk they were planning to do just that had to be postponed because one of the astronauts couldn’t get comfortable in their EVA suit.
Oh the headline is straight up lies? Publish it anyways.
We complain about ai being a bullshit generator, but I think we couldn’t have come up with anything better.
