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re: Odds that Starliner never returns to Earth?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 4:22 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 6/18/24 at 4:22 pm to LSUFanHouston
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How quickly can a Dragon be sent up to grab them?
There is one already docked at the ISS.
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Starting to wonder if it’s going to come back at all,
They will bring it back even if it kills two people. There is too much riding on this pork belly project. Boeing needs NASA like Haliburton needs wars.
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Posted on 6/18/24 at 4:47 pm to Btrtigerfan
If it kills 2 people then it kills Boeing
Posted on 6/18/24 at 4:59 pm to Addison Tiger
2 pages and nary a J-B Weld or duct tape post to be had. disappointing.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 5:05 pm to Addison Tiger
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If it kills 2 people then it kills Boeing
For sure! I think it should have said pork barrel, anyways.
FWIW, SpaceX scrubbed a Falcon mission this week. First one in a long time. They removed the rocket from the launch tower and are launching a different mission later today. It has been ten days since a SpaceX launch. Crazy that that's not normal now.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 5:05 pm to Jmcc64
"Okay, guys, I think we have her fixed. Are y'all ready to go back to earth?"
Posted on 6/18/24 at 5:16 pm to LSUFanHouston
Is this the same rocket that Boeing bought from the Russians back in the 90s?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 5:47 pm to Btrtigerfan
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There is one already docked at the ISS.
For the crew already there right? I would not think they would leave a crew there without a ship.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 5:48 pm to el Gaucho
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Space isn’t real baw
They’re not really in space.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 5:52 pm to LSUFanHouston
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For the crew already there right? I would not think they would leave a crew there without a ship.
Correct. I think there's a Russian capsule there also. Add in the fact that they haven't been trained on those, I would believe it would be a last-case scenario before they would come home on either of those unassisted.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:03 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Odds that Starliner never returns to Earth?
Zero. It's definitely coming back to Earth. Everything in that orbit does, eventually.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:04 pm to LSUFanHouston
Starliner is just like SLS... it is a way for Congress to funnel money to the blue bloods of aerospace to keep them solvent and producing military tech.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:39 pm to laxtonto
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The problem here is that the politics involved make it really hard this being the end of Boeing's involvement.
The political winds aren't exactly with Boeing anymore.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:45 pm to LSUFanHouston
I guess they can just leave it there as an expensive addition?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:50 pm to LSUFanHouston
I'm thinking SpaceX will go up with Crew Dragon. Starliner will find itself in the Indian Ocean one way or another.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:51 pm to LSUFanHouston
It’s coming back. None of this stuff is critical enough to abort the mission. It’ll be back o. earth alone.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:55 pm to supadave3
You know the guys at Boeing are freaking out about it. If that thing goes tits up I don't know if Boeing can recover. They'll probably have to be bailed out by the taxpayer just so the US can have a somewhat viable commercial aircraft manufacturer.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 10:08 pm to Worldly Bum
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Zero. It's definitely coming back to Earth. Everything in that orbit does, eventually.
Like the Air Force's perfect record, they've yet to leave one up there.
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