At 1 p.m. EDT NASA will announce if the Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts will return to Earth on Starliner or on Crew-9 with Dragon.
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BorgDrone on
Why do these things never start on time? It’s disrespectful of people’s time.
tkocur on
Getting tired of listening to shitty music. Hopefully, it starts soon.
Ojabango on
10 minutes in:
– you tell them
– no way, you tell them!
YsoL8 on
If as rumoured they are putting the crew in the Dragon there is still a huge question over the Starliner.
If they don’t think its safe for crew return then its likely also unsafe for undocking operations. The wrong thrusters going out at the wrong moment could see Starliner punch holes in the ISS, a worse outcome than killing its own passengers.
Its not clear to me in that situation that there is any satisfactorily safe method for unblocking the port.
Edit: there we are then, NASA don’t think its a safe vehicle.
NomadJones on
Nelson: Going back on Crew 9, Starliner coming back unmanned.
Every-Progress-1117 on
So… stated immediately, return with Crew-9 in February.
References to Columbia and Challenger.
deadfire55 on
They announced the crew is returning on Crew-9 in February. Starliner returning uncrewed.
Xygen8 on
And there it is. They’re coming back on Crew-9.
boringdako142 on
Literally first sentence is They will be back with crew 9 dragon. They are not playing around.
YsoL8 on
Overworking your people to the point of absurdity is not a positive!
MIguy734 on
Why is it that various manufacturers from various countries can use the same docking attachments for their capsules but Boeing and SpaceX can’t use the same attachments for an air line on a spacesuit?
malongoria on
The followers of “Neutron” Jack Welch’s business philosophies, who have been in charge of Boeing starting with Harry Stonecipher, destruction of Boeing’s reputation is now complete….
IWantAHoverbike on
Jeez… even after putting all of NASA to work on it they don’t have a functioning model of how the thrusters perform.
BlankProgram on
Hi, I can’t watch at the moment, did they say when they will perform the unmaned reentry for starliner?
TimeTravelingChris on
Shoutout to everyone saying the thrusters were fine and this was no big deal.
garoo1234567 on
So presumably they’ll send Starliner home empty and we’ll all watch to see if it explodes? Crazy
Incredibly embarrassing for Boeing and to a lesser degree NASA itself. They’re lucky that scrappy little SpaceX is able to save the day. I’m sure Russia would step up despite all the tensions and offer a very expensive Soyuz to bring them back but man, that would be ugly.
I’m not sure if I’m rooting for Starliner to make it back safely or not
kakapo88 on
As expected – NASA really had no other choice here.
What will be interesting is Starliners performance coming back down. If it fails, Boeing’s reputation, such as it is, will take yet another hit.
EdmundGerber on
Now that we have it confirmed they are coming back via Dragon, I guess the next big ask is – when will Boeing get the software update to Starliner, that allows autonomous flight?
YsoL8 on
Talking up Starliner at yet another announcement about how badly its failing its certainly an approach. Way to look out of touch.
MIguy734 on
NASA isn’t being shy about saying that they overruled Boeing.
Ehgadsman on
some things of note in the broadcast:
‘white Sands testing created more questions’
‘Teflon swells into the flow path and the oxidizer path is disrupted from entering the thruster normally’
‘how will this further propagate, and where else is it an issue?’
Sabrina_janny on
do you remember in june when suggesting this would get you massively downvoted? pepperidge farm remembers
MIguy734 on
Of course the reporters are only interested with any conflict between NASA and Boeing.
Decronym on
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[MBA](/r/Space/comments/1f09fa0/stub/ljqh0h8 “Last usage”)|~~Moonba-~~ Mars Base Alpha|
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At 1 p.m. EDT NASA will announce if the Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts will return to Earth on Starliner or on Crew-9 with Dragon.
[deleted]
Why do these things never start on time? It’s disrespectful of people’s time.
Getting tired of listening to shitty music. Hopefully, it starts soon.
10 minutes in:
– you tell them
– no way, you tell them!
If as rumoured they are putting the crew in the Dragon there is still a huge question over the Starliner.
If they don’t think its safe for crew return then its likely also unsafe for undocking operations. The wrong thrusters going out at the wrong moment could see Starliner punch holes in the ISS, a worse outcome than killing its own passengers.
Its not clear to me in that situation that there is any satisfactorily safe method for unblocking the port.
Edit: there we are then, NASA don’t think its a safe vehicle.
Nelson: Going back on Crew 9, Starliner coming back unmanned.
So… stated immediately, return with Crew-9 in February.
References to Columbia and Challenger.
They announced the crew is returning on Crew-9 in February. Starliner returning uncrewed.
And there it is. They’re coming back on Crew-9.
Literally first sentence is They will be back with crew 9 dragon. They are not playing around.
Overworking your people to the point of absurdity is not a positive!
Why is it that various manufacturers from various countries can use the same docking attachments for their capsules but Boeing and SpaceX can’t use the same attachments for an air line on a spacesuit?
The followers of “Neutron” Jack Welch’s business philosophies, who have been in charge of Boeing starting with Harry Stonecipher, destruction of Boeing’s reputation is now complete….
Jeez… even after putting all of NASA to work on it they don’t have a functioning model of how the thrusters perform.
Hi, I can’t watch at the moment, did they say when they will perform the unmaned reentry for starliner?
Shoutout to everyone saying the thrusters were fine and this was no big deal.
So presumably they’ll send Starliner home empty and we’ll all watch to see if it explodes? Crazy
Incredibly embarrassing for Boeing and to a lesser degree NASA itself. They’re lucky that scrappy little SpaceX is able to save the day. I’m sure Russia would step up despite all the tensions and offer a very expensive Soyuz to bring them back but man, that would be ugly.
I’m not sure if I’m rooting for Starliner to make it back safely or not
As expected – NASA really had no other choice here.
What will be interesting is Starliners performance coming back down. If it fails, Boeing’s reputation, such as it is, will take yet another hit.
Now that we have it confirmed they are coming back via Dragon, I guess the next big ask is – when will Boeing get the software update to Starliner, that allows autonomous flight?
Talking up Starliner at yet another announcement about how badly its failing its certainly an approach. Way to look out of touch.
NASA isn’t being shy about saying that they overruled Boeing.
some things of note in the broadcast:
‘white Sands testing created more questions’
‘Teflon swells into the flow path and the oxidizer path is disrupted from entering the thruster normally’
‘how will this further propagate, and where else is it an issue?’
do you remember in june when suggesting this would get you massively downvoted? pepperidge farm remembers
Of course the reporters are only interested with any conflict between NASA and Boeing.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
| |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
|[MBA](/r/Space/comments/1f09fa0/stub/ljqh0h8 “Last usage”)|~~Moonba-~~ Mars Base Alpha|
|Jargon|Definition|
|——-|———|—|
|[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1f09fa0/stub/ljqfcps “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|
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