NASA official acknowledges internal “disagreement” on safety of Starliner return

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-official-acknowledges-internal-disagreement-on-safety-of-starliner-return/

4 Comments

  1. You’d think with Boeing’s current safety record with the Max they’d be more onboard with taking the safest route possible to actually show the company has turned over a new leaf and was finally prioritizing other peoples fucking safety. You know the very specific thing they need to do in order to start getting people to trust them again?

    Yet here we are.

    **NASA:** Our safety concerns are serious enough we don’t really want our astronauts returning on Starliner.

    **Boeing:** We don’t give a fuck. We need the contract milestone and PR win for our share prices. Now put them on the capsule and if they die we’ll deal with that then.

  2. “Given that NASA will soon decide whether to fly crew on Starliner, the Boeing team has about a week to convince the NASA team of Starliner’s safety before a potential switch to Crew Dragon.”

  3. All the Redditors jumping on my back when I said this shit was a coffin originally when nasa announced the issues. The woman coming out of that thing was literally ecstatic to have lived. You could see it in her face. But if you implied starliner was unsafe, you’d get an endless barrage of Redditors calling you hyperbolic.