Boeing Starliner Launch Re-Scheduled

Boeing is a company that cant seem to do anything right lately.
Scary stuff and as upset those astronauts must be about being stuck up there until early next year I am sure they are THRILLED they will be going home on a SPACE X craft than that Boeing. ;)
 
ArrestMeRedZ said:
you can get away with keeping both competent staff and the useless quota hires on staff.
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i only have some exposure to working on a factory floor, or workplaces where manual labor is required and it is not that easy to just put useless do-nothing hires in that environment. the most productive workers resent the unqualified hires that didn't get their jobs based on qualifications, and that causes divisions in the culture
 
ArrestMeRedZ said:
I don't think you can solely blame DEI, nor can you put all the blame on the appointed head of the National Space Council that everybody seems to have forgot:

https://www.space.com/national-space-council-vp-kamala-harris

But I'm sure they have had an impact. You combine a bean counter leader of Boeing, fixed price contracts where non contributing deadweight is hired to meet quotas, and lack of competent government oversight at the top and you set up a situation ripe for failure.

I'd blame this one 90% on Boeing leadership, 5% on DEI and 5% government leadership. My percentages are admittedly completely made up numbers.
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I recently had to take an online mandatory DEI course with multiple quizzes.

Corporate learning video with various workplace DEI scenarios and the best way to avoid / resolve problems at work.

I was so burnt out afterwards that I had to get a Rainbow Refresher (extra ice) at Starbucks to make me feel better.
 
My guess is there's no budget for an additional flight to retrieve them. If the Space-X returns early, they lose a 6 month planned mission.

They were likely offered to ride the Boeing at their own peril and said absolutely not.
 
mk378 said:
My guess is there's no budget for an additional flight to retrieve them. If the Space-X returns early, they lose a 6 month planned mission.

They were likely offered to ride the Boeing at their own peril and said absolutely not.
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The couple articles I read is NASA said absolutely not. Any fatalities would be under Nasa's watch. I am guessing there are still some pretty smart engineers hanging around NASA still.

Burning a empty piece of space junk up in the atmosphere is Boeings choice.

I hope it arrives safely to ground, and maybe they can repair it and send it back.
 
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The part with the leaky thrusters is not made to be reusable. After guiding the craft to a proper re-entry trajectory, it is designed to detach from the rest of the capsule and burn up instead of landing. It won't be possible to examine it to see what went wrong.
 
SC Maintenance said:
Full return story.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/...s-starliner-undocks-space-station-2024-09-06/
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Yeah. Made it back without a problem. I suppose their tolerance for risk is pretty low when there are human lives at stake.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-boeing-welcome-starliner-spacecraft-to-earth-close-mission/

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