Boeing's Starliner set to fly astronauts for the first time on May 6
Boeing's Starliner set to fly astronauts for the first time on May 6
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I feel like if I was one of the astronauts picked, I'd fake the measles or something so I could nope the fuck out of it.
You want to believe that the quality control issues in their aircraft wing don't cross over to starliner, but delays, glitches and multiple other issues in Starliner say otherwise.
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It’s not like they had to do software updates on the fly to land it last launch.
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Sure, I’m okay with flying on an orbiter with a 67% survival rate. But a Boeing spacecraft? Fuck outta here.
(Just to be clear I am in no way disagreeing with you)
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I think a large part of that was that the majority of the shuttles service was spent in a pre-internet world. We literally didn't know the shuttles weaknesses until there were big incidents like Challenger and Columbia.
I was a kid in 86'. And (like a lot of others I'll bet) I was absolutely in awe of the shuttle. I was enamoured thanks to movies like SpaceCamp, etc...
Nowadays, with starliner, every failure in testing, every flaw, every glitch, is presented on a thousand tech blogs.
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Why get there economically when you can get there for ten times the price?
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They want redundancy. What if Musk goes crazy in a new direction and decides to retire Dragon.
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They should have thought of redundancy for the HLS. For one, you have a space fuel depot with cryogenic boil off that has to be refilled by multiple (at least 12?) starships. And then you have a slender long full rocket stage that has to land vertically on soft and unprepared lunar regolith. For some reason, my engineering instincts are revolting just at the thoughts of it.
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They could shoot the occupants for free. Same glorious Boeing (tm) results fo no money.
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They could probably get the human up there in 10 smaller cheaper launches for the same result.
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Hope they properly bolted in the door plugs
Why properly bolt them when you can just intimidate and harass the employees?
And kill them.
I get the reference. But coincidentally, the Apollo I accident was related to the same. (RIP Ed White, Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom)
From what I've heard the main hurdle they are tackling is getting the screen door to stop squeaking.
We twisted them two extra times. Oh wait... It's lefty tighty, right?