That’d be a match made in hell
I’m not talking about people who just want Boeing to fail, I’m talking about the ones who think the best path to changing things is if they publicly kill two astronauts. eg. See the “morally gray” comment below
Call me crazy but hoping for two innocent astronauts to die on the off-chance things improve isn’t something I would consider morally gray.
Yeah that’s right, they’ve decided to not use one of the 5 again because of performance inconsistencies.
The people in every one of these Starliner threads seemingly hoping for the worst case scenario to occur just so they can dunk on Boeing for it are disturbing
Completely untrue. There are currently only 3 human-rated spacecraft docked to the ISS and none of them are set aside as some sort of emergency capsule. There’s no trickery here. The number of astronauts on board is equal to the number of seats available for them to ride back home in. The only reason they aren’t stranded is because Starliner is still fully capable of undocking and taking them home whenever necessary. If it wasn’t, then they would actually be stranded with no alternative way back beyond straping them to the floor of Dragon.
The helium leaks weren’t and still aren’t an issue for the mission. They are an issue that should be addressed in the future, but they pose no safety risk as things currently stand. While Starliner is docked, it won’t even be leaking any helium. The tanks are sealed shut when they aren’t in use, and since the leaks aren’t on the tanks themselves, they aren’t losing any helium as long as they stay docked.
The thruster failures are also not necessarily related to the leaks. They don’t know why the the thrusters shut down, but they were shut down in software and not due to some piece of hardware failing. Their current goal is to figure out why the software shut them down, and why 4 of the 5 that shut down were able to be restarted without issue. They aren’t just assuming it can maneuver either, they know it can because the thrusters aren’t broken. It didn’t require any physical repair work to get them firing again, it took a restart.
Remember, this is just a test flight, and nothing that’s happening is outside the scope of the test.
They’re not stranded because Starliner is capable of reentry and is already cleared to be used in emergency situations. In fact, the two astronauts had to prepare for an emergency undocking earlier this week when a Russian satellite broke up and the station’s crew was ordered to take shelter in their respective spacecraft.
The helium leaks are also still not an issue either. The new leaks aren’t “new”, they’re just so much smaller than the first one that they took much longer to be detected.
It’s still docked to the ISS, not because it can’t leave, but because they don’t want it to leave until they collect all the data they need. Part of this data collection process is supposed to involve 2 spacewalks to examine the service module, but those spacewalks haven’t been able to happen yet. Technical issues with the EVA suits prevented the first one they had scheduled from happening. The ship is still fully capable of maneuvering too, they are only down one RCS thruster out of 28.
No, there’s only one Soyuz from the Russian side of things, and its seats are spoken for
What’s good this time around? In my cart so far I have Until Then, Disco Elysium, and MS Flight Simulator.
Pacific Drive is in there now too.
That’s exactly what I was thinking, anyone who drives for their job could easily be crossing the same traffic circle dozens of times a day. That would be against the law?
In a day? These laps don’t have to be consecutive for it to be illegal?
As it turns out, eels don’t grow their testes until mating season, which is why Freud was unable to find them.
It’s opt-in because it’s a beta
It’s not designed to like Starliner, but Dragon can in emergency situations. Starliner has airbags to cushion it on touchdown, but Dragon doesn’t so it would probably be a much rougher landing for the astronauts.
Yes it is actually! When it finally returns, this Starliner will be landing in New Mexico at the White Sands Space Harbor, which is basically a backup space shuttle landing strip.
That’s fair. I’m not exactly testing their endurance, just use them for YouTube and podcasts, so it’s likely they’ve degraded quite a bit without me noticing.
This headline makes me think maybe AI isn’t as useless as I once thought
Good golly I thought you said you digested another knife for a moment there. Mondays…