The scrubbed launch of the Boeing Starliner has bee rescheduled to May 17. Two astronauts will be sent to the International Space Station.
Boeing Starliner Launch Re-Scheduled
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Fingers crossed... in more ways than one.
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Aren't Boeing rockets 10x more expensive than SpaceX? Why are they even involved when Musk can do it all on a budget?
I think several of the Apollo astronauts answered that quite comically, but in a way truthfully, when asked if they were scared. A few replied.....
"I'm sitting on top of a 360 foot tall rocket, that is filled with enough fuel to give it the explosive force of a small nuclear weapon.... That was built by the lowest bidder".
I went to Kennedy space center and saw the rockets the first astronauts took into space. They were basically bombs with a tin can on top. If they built a car like they built those capsules they wouldn't allow it on the street.
Manned rocket launches have a long track record of getting scrubbed for technical reasons, it's not always weather related.
Because, so far, Musk hasn’t done it.
Seriously.
Space-X hasn’t successfully returned from orbit yet. That’s an important milestone.
This vehicle has, and they’re at the phase of putting astronauts on board. From a program perspective, they’re ahead.
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I watched this launch. A friend of mine was on it.
It was scrubbed for an oxygen regulator valve with anomalous performance.
If you’re interested in watching the launch, I recommend going here: https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv/
One thing that Astronaut Barry Wilmore (my friend) did that really impressed me - he went over to the ground crew that helped him board and took their Velcro nametags off their flight suits, and tucked them in his space suit. He was (until the scrub) going to take them into space with him.
Nice touch. The media missed that, but think about what it meant to that ground crew.
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I'll be watching it.
Many years ago I saw in the UK Science Museum, both a US space capsule and a Russian space capsule. Big contrast in which looked the best build quality. The Russian capsule looked like it had been made in someones shed.
Very classy.
they have better lobbyists, though.
but which one worked better?
In that era, I think there was only one fatal incident that was totally due to spacecraft malfunction, and that was Russian. A crew of three died when cabin pressure escaped through a faulty valve.
In more recent years, the US Shuttles proved to be very dangerous compared to Russian capsule-based craft.
In more recent years, the US Shuttles proved to be very dangerous compared to Russian capsule-based craft.
Given the death in the Soyuz program, I am going to go with Apollo…The Apollo deaths were the result of a poor ground test protocol, pressurizing to 15 PSI with pure O2.
The Soyuz 1 crashed, parachute failure, and had poison gas leak inside, which almost caused fatalities, in 1975.
Also, let’s examine the success rate of the Soviet N1, the moon rocket, vs. Apollo.
IIRC, this Boeing Starliner launch has been delayed or postponed a few other times previously.
Indefinite delay in place.
Looks like an LED light bulb.
Yeah Space X rockets keep blowing up with Musk replying that "They're learning alot." Not sure how many rocket space x needs to lose to be consumed successful.
