It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Failed

Re:It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Failed by TheCleric on Friday August 02, 2024 @03:44PM (#41141965)

If SpaceX has to step in to get the astronauts, Starliner will be scrapped and written off. Boeing has no benefit of the doubt right now. No one will assume this is a singular incident, and will be viewed with all of Boeing's other troubles in mind. Boeing needed this to go without a hitch, because they aren't trustworthy in the public's mind and NASA can't be seen as continuing to put lives in danger after the retirement of the space shuttle program due to safety reasons.

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Re:It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Failed by ceejayoz on Friday August 02, 2024 @03:51PM (#41142026)

It's probably more satisfying to NASA to not scrap the program, given Boeing is on the hook for futher costs.

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Re:It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Failed by tekla on Friday August 02, 2024 @03:52PM (#41142034)

> If SpaceX has to step in to get the astronauts, Starliner will be scrapped and written off.

No one actually thinks this

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Re:It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Failed by mrpippy on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:04PM (#41142134)

Here’s what Eric Berger wrote at Ars Technica yesterday:

“If NASA defers to its fallback plan, flying on Dragon, it may spell the end of the Starliner program. During the development and testing of Starliner, the company has already lost $1.6 billion. Reflying a crew test flight mission, which likely would be necessary should Starliner return autonomously, would cost much more. Boeing might opt to cancel Starliner and leave NASA with just a single provider of crew transportation. That would be painful for both NASA and Boeing.”

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Re:It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Failed by joe_inferno on Friday August 02, 2024 @04:02PM (#41142116)

I mean, the person you're responding to does so…

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