After months of mulling, NASA will decide on Starliner return this weekend | “The agency flight readiness review is where any formal dissents are presented and reconciled.”
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-expects-to-decide-this-weekend-how-to-bring-starliner-astronauts-home/
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“We promise to make the final determination to set a deadline to make the final decision to establish a timeline for making the decision whether we need to proceed with setting a goal for when to notify Boeing that we may or may not make a decision in the coming months”
I honestly wish to make a formal complaint/request.
Please send somebody else up there to get them. A company that has no connection to Boeing, or to carry it a bit further no connection to NASA. Maybe the Chinese, or India, or I guess that musk fellow.
We all know what’s already been decided. Spoiler: it’s dragon
Politics and engineering are weighing on their decisions that seems to me almost paranoid driving this delay, trying avoid another Columbia happening. Lordy, I hope they’re able to make sound decision.
It seems like their questioning all the decisions their making these days.
I know there’s a reason but why would it be so hard to just send up a rocket for them to come home in a different capsule?
Also as for the Boeing capsule itself surely there’s a way to propel it towards earth without the thrusters activating and potentially malfunctioning