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Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS

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Re: Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS

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Now with 5 leaks, at what point does it make sense to jettison the Starliner and get something else on the pad, something more reliable. Like SpaceX?

Starliner wasn't selected based on merit in the first place so only after people will die will it become impossible to pretend otherwise. What incentive do the current decision makers have to own up to their mistake? They'll double down first, watch.

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

Re: Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS

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With the officially stated reason from Boeing being "It would be quite involved" to fix before launch: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/nasa-and-boeing-are-ge...

It would almost be comical at this point if this company weren't directly responsible for human lives.

Re: Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS

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are these actually scary leaks? in the article they say they'd be fine even if the leak were 100x the size.

Yeah this is one of those times my lizard brain wants to say, “that’s terrifying” but my not-as-lizard brain says, “you don’t have a frame of reference. What’s normal?”
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