“I have a real good feeling in my heart that the spacecraft will bring us home, no problem.”
Two NASA astronauts who have been aboard the ISS for more than a month say they’re certain their Boeing Starliner craft will safely return them to Earth https://t.co/AEAlO90pIh pic.twitter.com/GrEyufwhAl
— Bloomberg (@business) July 10, 2024
I don’t think anyone cares if that Indian woman dies in space.
Probably, some people are thinking that was the plan – get that bitch off the earth.
Two Nasa astronauts from Boeing’s troubled Starliner capsule might have to remain in space until the middle of August as engineers continue to work through technical problems that prevented their return in June.
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have been aboard the international space station (ISS) since 6 June after the first crewed docking of the next-generation spacecraft. The test mission was scheduled to last about a week, but Starliner’s undocking was delayed several times as faulty thrusters and then a series of small helium leaks raised safety concerns.
On Wednesday, Nasa announced that it was still performing tests to ensure the capsule would perform as expected, and although the space agency was confident the craft would be safe for an emergency evacuation, mission managers were not yet ready to schedule its departure.
“Some of the data suggests optimistically, maybe it’s by the end of July, but we’ll just follow the data each step at a time,” Steve Stich, Nasa’s commercial crew program manager, said at a lunchtime press conference.
Mark Nappi, vice-president and program manager of Boeing’s commercial crew program, told reporters that he was confident the Starliner program would emerge stronger because of the issues.
“All this information is going to go in a big bucket, and all the engineers are going to review it and try to see if it doesn’t point to root cause or point to some additional testing that we can do in the future to eliminate this problem once and for all,” he said.
Although Boeing’s space operations are separate from its aviation wing, the ongoing problems with Starliner have added to the company’s recent public relations crisis, sparked by the crash of two 737 Max airliners and a number of other safety related incidents.
Despite being years behind schedule and more than $1.5bn over budget when it launched from Florida on 5 June, Starliner was intended to restore some of the company’s lost luster and offer Nasa a second private commercial crew alternative for the transportation of astronauts in lower earth orbit to SpaceX’s Dragon capsule.
This isn’t that big of a disaster for Boeing.
No one knows about spaceships and they don’t care about them.
I can’t think of anything I care about less than spaceships.
Boeing’s big trouble is going to come when one of their commercial jets crashes and hundreds of people die.
They never should have hired all those women and black people.