NASA Will Attempt to Launch Boeing's Troubled Starliner Away From Space Station as Fast as Possible, Just in Case
At this point, the only news I want to see is that the astronauts have been safely returned and that Boeing's offices, along with the entire executive and board, were obliterated when a Boeing 737 MAX 8 collided with the out-of-control Starliner during reentry and rained fiery debris on Boeing's headquarters.
Everybody around the world better hide in their basements and/or bunkers this evening because after finally detaching from the ISS, the Boeing Starliner is coming for you.
I frequently exchange emails with someone who has extensive contacts at NASA. I just sent them a message that the next time the director of NASA has a meeting with Boeing, he needs to have framed, movie poster-sized news articles on the wall in the room where the meeting's held. One article is about the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, the other is about some Russian business leader "falling" out of a window. Bonus points to the director if the meeting's held in a windowed conference room on like the 10th floor and there's a couple of burly astronauts with him and he opens the meeting with, "The President has authorized me to take any steps necessary to solve this issue."
the Starliner project was a massive shitshow. The inside of that thing looked like a holdover from the Apollo era. Quality control is critically important for airliners, but it's even more important with spacecraft, since bad qc means a very bad outcome, almost guaranteed, where with airliners it takes a certain amount of time for even the most egregious stuff (like missing bolts on door plugs) to show up.
Yabut would 'free' be worth it when launching from a conveyor belt with a attack otter of the ass as captain?
...on second thought, a rusty space submarine would probably be more reliable than a Boeing Starliner
https://bsky.app/profile/curlyangw.bsky.social/post/3lqxr6sdmo22a If you follow that thread, you’ll find that no one has any idea of what to do.
