Boeing's Starliner is Like Gilligan's Island

[joestein]

I am not as impressed with Musk's success with SpaceX as you are. When he was testing his ships in Texas, they were blowing up on launch (or, for safety, being blown up) left and right. So his "accomplishment" only came after a series of failures. If he had sent the two astronauts into space on the first try, they would not have survived.

Most inventions/breakthroughs have many failures until they get it right. There might be many iterations of success before a final product id complete.

If innovation was easy - everybody would be doing it.

 

[pedro47]

There is one other issue maybe; I used the word maybe.

I hope and pray the Starliner are not on the metric system for tools and parts.

 

[Brett]

The stranded in space couple - Butch and Suni are finally home

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https://theonion.com/astronaut-returns-from-iss-with-annoying-space-accent-1849659471/

 

[DrQ]

Trapped astronauts share horrifying new secret from their near-deadly trip to space aboard Boeing Starliner​

They recalled that after Wilmore took manual control of the ship, they lost four thrusters, and with that the ability to steer the vehicle safely.​

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Flight regulations dictate that even though they were a stone's throw away from the ISS, they should return to earth, but Wilmore said he realized he may have completely lost control of the ship.​

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'I don't know that we can come back to Earth at that point,' he told Arstechnica. 'I don't know if we can. And matter of fact, I'm thinking we probably can't.'​

Trapped astronauts share horrifying tale from their near-deadly trip

The astronauts who were left stranded on board the International Space Station revealed their near-death experience.

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