Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
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Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
#2This is just getting worser and worser. Boeing needs to get its shit in place or stop doing moon shots. Imagine if this happens on mars, #BringbackBoeing
Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
#3Boeing need to stop being given contracts, from the Starliner issues on top of the various scandals with the quality control of their planes, it's clear to see they have no value in human life.
Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
#4How's the share price?
Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
#5This is just getting worser and worser. Boeing needs to get its shit in place or stop doing moon shots. Imagine if this happens on mars, #BringbackBoeing
too big to fail for airlines/ space companies. It is crazy how this has played out and its just like not even considered in the larger picture of their airplanes falling out of the sky.
Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
#6Hypothetically, if a private citizen bricked the ISS, what would my consequences be?
Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
#7I get that there is probably a desire to solely blame Boeing for this - but this seems like as much of a Project Management and integration failure on the NASA side, as it does Boeing putting defective hardware/software into orbit.
It shouldn't have been allowed to happen, period.
I get that what I said will not be popular, but this has been the consensus of every previous thread on this topic that I've seen - NASA is sorta playing the role of a systems integrator here, and assumes the liability for defective components from their subcontractors, and has the ultimate supervision authority to decide if something can or cannot fly.
Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
#8I get that there is probably a desire to solely blame Boeing for this - but this seems like as much of a Project Management and integration failure on the NASA side, as it does Boeing putting defective hardware/software into orbit. It shouldn't have been allowed to happen, period. I get that what I said will not be popular, but this has been the consensus of every previous thread on this topic that I've seen - NASA i…
> I get that there is probably a desire to solely blame Boeing for this
I'm sorry, where do you see this impulse? I'm just not following.
Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
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Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it
#10Hypothetically, if a private citizen bricked the ISS, what would my consequences be?
You have to fix it, first you have to quit your job, then astronaut training, then you are shipped to Russia, put on a Soyuz flight to the ISS and fix what you have damaged.