NASA rules out bringing astronauts home on Boeing's Starliner

After weeks of debate, NASA has ruled out bringing two astronauts back to Earth aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule because of lingering concerns about multiple helium leaks and degraded thrusters, both critical to a successful re-entry, officials said Saturday.

[badtzcalade]

An 8 day trip turns into 6 months in space…

[lumberjack]

EMBARRASSING *FOR BOEING*

safer to send an Uber

[kennethso]

How can Boeing continue to get these contracts after everything that has gone on with them lately? Clearly profits are their highest priority and they are risking peoples lives for it.

[haj]

you hired me for an 8 day mission, now you need to pay me for 12 months!!

[mannyandrades]

6 months to wait to get rescued is crazy

[Hobartez]

Boeing has lost its edge. This is the beginning of the end

[eklim]

FTC: this is what monopoly and lobbying bring to corporate America

[BrickBreaker]

Boeing: Here NASA, try our new Starliner 737 Max

[JeromePizzle]

February 2025?!? What the heck. What a major disappointment for Boeing, worst airliner company on earth.

[deebee]

Scoreboard: 13 successful SpaceX crewed flights over 4 years, for approximately $3 billion. Boeing is 0-3 for $5 billion.

[Overstand]

I'm surprised the comments aren't turned off. Yet..

[Clone-ttlg]

At least Boeing is consistent with every product.

[WiseGuyRudy]

Thank god last thing we need is a door popping off during descent

[MrBrandonman]

Boeing breaking down? Who would have ever guessed!!! (Don't suicide me Boeing)

[ahr]

If your core value was safety you wouldn’t have launched with known issues. This is the culmination of over a decade of incompetence and mismanagement at Boeing and nasa. IMHO

[WesleyAPEX]

The astronauts were going to testify against Boeing and Boeing cant have that.

[shadow_grey_fox]

To bad this situation wasn't part of the program earlier. Three space programs and no one thought about interchangable safety equipment.

[redtail]

They don't even give their engineers raises at all. But the CEO gave himself a 36 million raise when he took over.

[patrickjordan]

Boeing Again showing the absolute foolishness of "trust me bro..."

[bryanttspross]

The fact that after all these months they still don't know what the problem is with starliner says enough. Unfortunately there were flaws in the design that cannot be fixed right now or anytime soon.