NASA is Hiding Shocking Secret about Boeing Starliner Failure: Worse Than You Think...

NASA is Hiding Shocking Secret about Boeing Starliner Failure: Worse Than You Think...
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NASA is Hiding Shocking Secret about Boeing Starliner Failure: Worse Than You Think...
Starliner, once hailed as a breakthrough in crewed spaceflight, now faces a potentially humiliating end. After numerous issues and delays aboard the ISS, the prospect of it being unable to undock and possibly returning without its crew looms large. This situation has sparked significant debate, leading NASA to recently provide critical updates on the CFT-1, Crew-9 mission, and future operations.
So, what exactly did NASA reveal, and how will these developments impact Starliner, Dragon, and the overall ISS mission?
NASA is Hiding Shocking Secret about Boeing Starliner Failure: Worse Than You Think...
In the previous episode, we discussed NASA's potential plans to delay the Crew-9 mission due to ongoing Starliner issues. At that time, these updates were speculative, but NASA has now officially confirmed the delay, along with several other key updates.
NASA announced, “NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Tuesday, September 24, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station.” Steve Stich, NASA’s commercial crew program manager, further elaborated on the reasons behind the delay. Besides the rescheduling of Crew-9, NASA has decided to make room for two Starliner astronauts by launching only two astronauts on the Crew-9 mission. SpaceX spacesuits are reportedly ready for this change.
NASA is Hiding Shocking Secret about Boeing Starliner Failure: Worse Than You Think...
This move is something NASA had been hinting at for some time, though they hadn’t explicitly confirmed it. It seems they may have been downplaying the severity of Starliner’s issues. Now, with the situation becoming untenable, NASA has officially opted for a Dragon-based solution. Under this plan, the two Starliner astronauts will remain on the ISS for over eight months and return with Crew-9 in February 2025. The identities of these two astronauts have yet to be determined.
Another backup solution being considered involves allowing three crew members to be positioned on the Crew-8 cargo pallet. This contingency plan would be enacted if NASA needs to undock Starliner before Crew-9 arrives. Such a scenario would be a significant setback for Boeing. The inability to undock Starliner, compounded by the failure to safely return the astronauts, would be a major embarrassment—especially if they had to rely on their competitor, SpaceX's Dragon, to bring those astronauts back to Earth. This development would likely signal the end of Starliner.
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To be resolved, thank you.

[debbiek]

NASA needs to put these astronauts first, not the reputation of a company who is obviously not up to the task at hand. Remember Challenger and those lives lost due to temps being too low on that day. They launched anyway and rubber O rings failed.

[rayspencer]

It seems Boeing has their biggest talent pool in their lobbyists, not engineers. With SpaceX, it"s the opposite .

[richardhuffman]

Yes. Let DragonX bring the two Boeing astronauts back, before something goes wrong they are killed in Starliner. At this point, with all that's gone wrong with Starliner, I would not want to return in it.

[PanioloBee]

One thing I hope comes out of all this is maybe a standard will be established for space suits. During an emergency an astronaut should be able to dawn their own spacesuit, enter any spacecraft and be able to interface with that spacecraft’s life support system.

[MrSlotter]

Boeing should have to repay the American tax payers the billions of dollars spent on this.

[thejoshman]

this entire debacle smells like the people in charge checked off DEI boxes instead of competency boxes.

[Akira-nwjl]

spacex should charge NASA a hefty price for the rescue.

[hobojohnson]

Those executives in NASA are total idiots. And the Boeing Starliner program should be scrapped. I wouldn't trust Starliner with my neighbors dog.

[jeffreyryan]

Starliner is an embarrassment to Boeing and America. If the wanted a 4 seat Apollo, why didn't they start with an actual Apollo capsule and a Saturn 1 rocket instead of this BS. Between this and the other problems at Boeing, we as a nation look inept and incapable of doing spaceflight other than SpaceX and Elon Musk. Earlier this evening I watched a SpaceX launch from Vandenberg. It launched on time, it's first stage was recovered, no drama, better than Boeing. It's embarrassing that NASA will probably use a SpaceX Dragon to bring the crew of Starliner home. All the older NASA guys living and dead are probably wondering WTF?!

[michaelotoole]

Boeing cant get anything right anymore. as i see it
1: major problems with their commercial aircraft division.
2: major problems with contract to provide the next airforce one.
3: major problems with military contract to provide new fleet of refueling air tankers.
4: major problems with delays as subcontractor to space launch system due to using unqualified people in assembly.
5: major problems with starliner capsule.

did i miss anything?

[DThrills]

Where Jeff Bezos went wrong was when they asked him if he could handle crewed missions, he thought they were saying _crude_ missions

[solarfunction]

Why does StarBlunder look like the old analogue spacecrafts of the 60's with switches & dial gauges etc ??? The inside of the spacecraft looks like it's a sardine can compared to Dragon. This whole thing about it not being able to auto undock is a joke when Dragon was completely autonomous in case of if the Astronuts had blacked out during spaceflight so why was StarBlunder allowed off the ground without having the same abilities as Dragon. StarBlunder was out of date before it even left the sky.

[jerrypolverino]

Boeing should concentrate on doing a good job and not blowing money on lobbyists, corruption, and stock buy backs for the greedy BOD.

[DThrills]

Starliner can't undock without a human aboard.
Put a human in there, undock, and then eject and spacewalk back to the ISS.

[gjohnston]

I wouldn’t fly in anything Boeing built in this day an age

[ANGRY_AMERICAN]

the bigger question is why SpaceX and their Dragon program is far ahead and safer than Starliner by Boeing with Boeing getting a substantially larger chunk of NASA funds. The following statement isn't intended to be demeaning in any way but have to look at facts. What's the biggest difference between a vehicle working and being safe and one that's not, it's the people that design and build and how close those two groups work together. Boeing pride has shifted to meeting all DEI boxes while SpaceX pride is to employee people who are the best work hard and can work together with people in their departments and other departments like assembly, so everyone understands what a part does why it needs to be assembled in a certain way. For example, if a design engineer would have been working with the people wrapping the wires on Starliner with the wrong tape how much money and time would that have saved and don't get me started with Boeing aircraft issues

[anthonycyr]

Let me be clear, the star liner crew are in no danger, as long as they return on a dragon.

[ullrichfischer]

Waddayamean "would be a major embarrassment". The whole contract for Boeing's non-functional space tech is ALREADY a huge embarrassment for NASA!

[garyrooksby]

NASA is taking great risks with its astronauts just to maintain the perception of competition in transfer providers.

[timhagensick]

When Boeing was run by aerospace engineers it was a decent company, but once bean-counters got in charge the company went totally to shit.