Boeing Starliner: Two astronauts wait to come home amid spacecraft issues

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was set to mark its crowning achievement this month: Ferrying two NASA astronauts on a round trip to the International Space Station, proving the long-delayed and over-budget capsule is up for the task. But the two veteran astronauts piloting this test flight are now in a tentative position — extending their stay aboard the space station for a second time while engineers on the ground scramble to learn more about issues that plagued the first leg of their journey. #CNN #newsupdates

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[anttone]

At this point, I wouldn't even ride a Boeing bicycle 🤷

[LordBrittish]

Next project: Boeing is making a submersible to go down and visit the Titanic.

[jimhorn]

Put Boeing CEO up there on ISS, you don't have to bring him down, but the company might improve without him.

[johnwalsh]

If it's Boeing, you ain't going

[chris]

those astronauts must've been whistle blowers

[HuskyOwner-bljf]

Boeing is just another example of a large corporation coasting on its past accomplishments and letting quality go down the drain

[marcolazatin]

Boeing misunderstood the contract. They thought 4.2 billion dollars doesn't include a return trip.

[Zonker]

The CEO makes $33 million a year and the company is inefficient? Shocked, shocked I am!

[hellxsco]

1 week from now: Boeing Starliner fucking explodes. CEO Gives himself a $10 million dollar raise.

[icare]

SpaceX only received 2.5 billion to build Dragon space craft, was on time and on budget.

Boeing received 4.6 billion then need another 1.3 billion to complete the StarLiner and is still plagued with defects, bad engineering and unacceptable quality control. Of course it’s Boeing.

[scientist]

New ad slogan: "Boeing: An otherworldly level of incompetence"

[EJWash]

Saying: "What goes up, must come down!"
Boeing: "Hold my beer and watch this."

[rajmathew]

Meanwhile, the CEO is getting 30 million a year

[al]

once again, Boeing is proving they are at least 5 years behind what SpaceX can do.

[DylanSemerau]

I think they should send the space x dragon capsule and have the boeing starliner capsule return unmanned. That seems like such an unnecessary risk to send them home in such an unsafe vehicle.

[kennethng]

Boeing would be a laughing stock if SpaceX has to go up and rescue them.

[t.r.campbell]

This thing should never have been launched in the first place because of all of the engineering and operational difficulties that were known. The decision to launch was a political and public relations decision rather than an engineering decision.

[midnightorchid]

Boeing can't even understand airplanes, WTF did people expect?!

[brandenstangle]

Boeing tennis shoes? Nah I’ll go barefoot

[viksra]

He was originally correct when he said 15 billion miles away, not when he revised it to 50 million.