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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

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Post by Aloha »

darby_nine wrote: post #8
Aloha wrote: post #7

I 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.

every previous thread this has come up, essentially.

Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

arthurcolle wrote: post #5
totaldude87 wrote: post #2

This 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.

This farce felt like it had very generous damage control around it in the press. Hard to view that in a vacuum when you consider the press' dislike of SpaceX because it shares a owner with Twitter and the removal of the Bluecheck privileges.

Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it

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Post by netsharc »

It amuses me that of course there's a standard for docking interoperability defined:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Docking_System_S...

And adapters:

> The International Docking Adapter (IDA) converts older Russian APAS-95 docking systems to the International Docking System Standard

Imagine flying all the way and then realizing you forgot your adapter...

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Post by ActionHank »

ChocolateGod wrote: post #3

Boeing 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.

Boeing execs should be held criminally accountable for their leadership that has resulted in this mess.

People should be in prison.

Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it

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Post by Archelaos »

candiddevmike wrote: post #13
hansvm wrote: post #6

Hypothetically, if a private citizen bricked the ISS, what would my consequences be?

Isn't the ISS going to be decommissioned soon anyways?

No. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#En...

Re: Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it

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Post by chrisandchris »

BSDobelix wrote: post #10
hansvm wrote: post #6

Hypothetically, 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.

Well, if you're flying Soyus at least you have a chance of coming back. Not so if you fly Boeing, as it seems.

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Post by mysterydip »

netsharc wrote: post #14

It amuses me that of course there's a standard for docking interoperability defined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Docking_System_S... And adapters: > The International Docking Adapter (IDA) converts older Russian APAS-95 docking systems to the International Docking System Standard Imagine flying all the way and then realizing you forgot your adapter...

Maybe they just need to flip it twice like inserting USB devices.

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Post by bunderbunder »

arthurcolle wrote: post #5
totaldude87 wrote: post #2

This 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.

I'm getting rather disillusioned with that phrase. The one immutable constant of being "too big to fail" is that it guarantees failure.
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