Boeing's Starliner strands astronauts in space

Two NASA astronauts are stranded in space with no return date set. Plus, a new climate satellite launches into orbit, and a human-made creepy crawler looks to explore Mars. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space.

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[killerdoritoWA]

Boeing executives need to ride onboard the next Starliner "test" flight.

[commander]

The astronauts didn't realize no boeing product is safe.

[crimony]

At least they didn't kill them, but the mission is still young.

[stupidburp]

Cut all funding for the Boeing capsule program and give it to Sierra Space instead. With that extra money they could get Dream Chaser rated for manned missions. Then we would have the benefits of two dissimilar manned mission platforms. SpaceX Dragon is enough for now and fills the same niche as Boeing’s Starliner. Dream Chaser has different capabilities than these capsules as a space plane.

[areareare]

Now now, they didn't "strand" them....they just aren't bringing them back any time soon.

[matteofalduto]

Can’t Boeing go a week without embarrassing themselves?

[ScrumViperDriver]

Like most organizational-wide failures/collapses…it starts with a failure of leadership. Boeing is a legacy company with systematic shortcomings in innovation, but their 100s of $millions spent on lobbying politicians keeps them in the game. Elon will save the day!

[edwingan]

Waiting for all the helium to leak out 😂

[DirtyLaundryTrueCrime]

Boeing has embarrassed itself with it's earthbound aircraft, why would it's spacecraft be any better?
They will be sued as soon as there are enough victims.
Snore.

[franktoh]

Made in India spare parts are cheap but can't deliver Sunita back home😂😂😂😂 jai hind

[paultsjan]

The Starliner is not stranded in space.
It is just a staycation in space participating in leisure activities with a welcome relief to do more testing and troubleshooting.
It is a normal systematic approach to problem-solving that is often used to find and correct issues with complex machines, electronics, computers and software systems.
Not a problem as far as NASA is concerned.
LOL!!!

[thevillage]

One Way Ticket, better call Elon to get them home, what a waste, Boeing's a disaster, their DEI history has finally caught up to them.SpaceX? Get the Dragon ready, you've got a pick up

[grailness]

Boeing is single handedly hold back humanity

[btreese]

Send them a Crew Dragon and just be done with it. No way should they be made to return from orbit in that shit box.

[straighttoyou]

I think the re-entry was a large budget item expense that was removed just prior to launch. 😂
I can't believe Boeing would leave people stranded somewhere without a way
Me also thinking about O'Hare airport every year

[BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Sierra Space deserves the funding NASA has wasted on Starloser
Did they check that all the bolts were installed on the Hatch....?

[FartsMcNuggets]

boy, it sure went south fast for Boeing, almost like sabotage or they're marked.

[Raytracer]

Lmao! When a literal pro-washington pro-war govt funded corporate backed think-tank calls your mission to space a failure its time to reevaluate your life 😂

[没有备注]

Elon Musk should be responsible, why didn't he open source the technology to Boeing!

[indiason]

Boeing STRANDLINER....don't expect to come back! Have a nice trip!