Boeing Starliner

[Archibald]

Confirming somewhat that the public affair dimension has outsized the technical aspects:

Exclusive | Boeing execs fought NASA in heated arguments about stranded astronauts flying home in leaky Starliner: ‘Wildly irresponsible’

“What’s the headline if there’s a catastrophic failure? It’s not ‘Boeing killed two astronauts,’ it’s ‘NASA killed two astronauts,” one NASA ex…

nypost.com

"Normalization of Deviance" -Diane Vaughan, about STS-51L launch decision.
"By God Thiokol, when do you want me to launch - in April ?"
Glad NASA did not budged.

 

[aim9xray]

This time.

 

[TomcatViP]

Unfair. An assumption of failure such as this, at this stage, only tricks the debate.
I think we should have this conversation once Dreamliner has returned (or not).

 

[Michel Van]

Unfair. An assumption of failure such as this, at this stage, only tricks the debate.
I think we should have this conversation once Dreamliner has returned (or not).

let us first see how Starliner makes it return or crash into new Mexico.
then we can discuss further...

 

[NMaude]

let us first see how Starliner makes it return or crash into new Mexico.

Or to put it another way, if the Starliner CM lands in one piece or pieces.