That’s the correct decision. Last time NASA decided to send back astronauts on a known-damaged spacecraft, they all died.
Better to be safe.
And the MBA vampires have bled another formerly great company to death.
Honestly the entire space industry has been a corrupt money grab from the start.
It’s why Johnson even pushed a moon landing to Kennedy, to get pork for his constituents.
thats it then, isnt it. boeing is kinda done with space[craft] for awhile.
On the press conference call, Bill Nelson said he talked to the new Boeing CEO, who said they’re committed to continuing with the program.
“We fucked up and we’re not sure how we’re going to fix it”.
If they said that, I would go buy Boeing stock immediately.
I feel so bad for these astronauts, I can’t imagine being told I’d be stuck through the new year. and this puts the dragon crew half staffed for the work they needed to do. Boeing seriously fucked up here.
Glad they can come home on a safe craft, but there needs to be repercussions and answers.
I’d probably be upset to have my return delayed that much, but I’m sure there are people who would be ecstatic that their space trip got extended. Hopefully those astronauts are the latter XD
Welp, that’s that. I wonder how this will affect future flights. Will NASA require an extra test flight prior to Crew-1? If so, Boeing will be one rocket short, as all of the Atlas Vs have already been allocated.
No way Starliner flies again. This whole thing has been a gigantic fiasco from day one. I hope they pull the plug and spend the money on programs with a future.
I disagree, they have so much time and money investment into starliner, it has to fly again. They can’t throw out 15 years of development.
Sunk cost fallacy. Fuck Boeing, why should the government keep funding this?
