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1y ago

Imagine being stuck in orbit because Boeing isn't sure if their pod will kill you or not

www.businessinsider.com

Astronauts from Boeing's Starliner were supposed to be in space for 8 days. Now they're stuck there with no scheduled return date.

Boeing has like 6 crises right now and yours is priority 5/6. Imagine becoming an astronaut just to put your life in Boeing hands.

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Just the Free Market doing what it does best!
- the average consumer will see this and simply choose not to buy a space pod from boeing obviously
  
  It’s because the wrong CEO is leading the company
Boeing saved 42 cents by replacing a critical piece of insulation with a handful of circus peanuts and a bobby pin.
I would simply not have gotten on the boeing deathship in the first place
I can't wait for the Tom Hanks movie about this one
- The funny thing is that he kinda-sorta already has in "Apollo 13". The Apollo CSM was built by North American Aviation, later named North American Rockwell after a merger. They changed their name to Rockwell International in 1973, then sold their space division to Boeing in 1996.
  Rockwell also built the space shuttle. So Rockwell also has the dubious distinction of having built every American crew vehicle that killed its crew.
If it’s not Boeing I’m not going!
Where they not like following the news weeks before the lead up? I'd skip town the day of the launch.
- If I were the crew they’d’ve had to load me into that ship at gunpoint
I'm honestly surprised this story hasn't been getting more news attention.

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