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Our Starliner Spacecraft Is Ready For Launch

https://qz.com/boeing-starliner-spacecraft-astronaut-flight-nasa-1851360764

Boeing had to remove a mile of flammable tape but now
Starliner is ready for its first astronaut flight.

The Starliner spacecraft is finally ready for launch, targeting a
liftoff date in May. It has been a struggle to get to this point for
Boeing’s crew vehicle, which suffered from a series of
blunders over the years, the last of which had to do with two
major safety hazards discovered on the spacecraft.

The next greatest challenge for Boeing is finding a flight crew
With no immediate family, along with a desire to go out in a
blaze of glory.
While the rest of the world would view their sacrifice as a
blaze of Idiοcracy.

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Atlas 5 has been retired and is no longer being manufactured. The Vulcan Centaur replacement can't be human certified. So there's no foreseeable Starliner future viability. The same can be said for Boeing.

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Post ID: @fbxp+1rGQI1jy

This won't happen. It would be an embarrassing news headline no matter if this was a failure or a success. That would hurt stock price...which is only thing Boeing cares about. This project is so late, so over budget and is now a lame, obsolete design that is no longer relevant. So this won’t happen.

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Post ID: @bmwt+1rGQI1jy

Thank goodness for SpaceX. Elon, please create a transport airplane company.

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Post ID: @5qih+1rGQI1jy

They would be crazy to launch with astronauts. If it were to fail catastrophically, it would put Boeing in a lower place then now...if that is even possible. There's zero upside for Boeing to continue with this failed and economically obsolete launch system.

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Post ID: @5mzs+1rGQI1jy

Well @2hes+1rGQI1jy

Boeing’s Starliner losses total $1.5 billion with
NASA astronauts still waiting to fly

Since 2014, when NASA awarded Boeing with a nearly $5 billion
fixed-price contract to develop Starliner,
the company has recorded losses on the program
almost every year.

Boeing on Wednesday reported a $257 million charge
in the second quarter for its Starliner astronaut spacecraft
program, bringing the program’s to-date overrun costs
to $1.5 billion as delays continue.

This Was, As of Jul 26 2023
And Yes, we are still -------- Hemorrhaging Cash

2023 --- 257 million
2022 --- 288 million
2020 -------------------- N/A
2019 --- 489 million
2018 ---- 57 million
2017 -------------------- N/A
2016 --- 162 million

SpaceX crewed launches at a glance
Number of crewed launches: 12 (NASA: 8, Commercial: 4)
Number of crew: 46 (Government: 35, Commercial: 11)

Boeing --- ZERO
To be more exact, 1.5 Billion to the Left of Zero

  • $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Post ID: @4cfa+1rGQI1jy

Sending Starliner to the scrap pile would be the best move now.

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Post ID: @3epj+1rGQI1jy

A lot...and the tab is still running... Same with AF1, USAF tanker, 777X and everything else.

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Post ID: @2rab+1rGQI1jy

how over much over budget was this "beauty"

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Post ID: @2hes+1rGQI1jy

Perhaps just another example of how incompetent Boeing leadership has truly come. There is Win scenario for Starliner...only a Lose scenario if they have a fatal accident. But maybe they are not this incompetent and they are just spewing their usual PR spin to show some faux Boeing relevancy in Space for stock gain and then they will rightly cancel this project before launch. Yeah, can't believe NASA would put people on this launch if it happens. Thought NASA was better than FAA.

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Post ID: @1zrp+1rGQI1jy

Su----e mission.

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Post ID: @1dnh+1rGQI1jy

Another large financial loss Boeing project...like every Boeing project in the last 20 years...

And NASA already awarded ALL the remaining flights to ISS before ISS is decommissioned to SpaceX. But NASA still wants to have two launch system options in case one encounters an issue that would delay launches during the issue investigation.

But the real problem for Boeing and every other launch system in the world is that the SpaceX launch and recovery approach is far lower in cost by an order of magnitude than ALL other launch systems. And Starship will decrease this by even another order of magnitude very soon too. So the Boeing Starliner system is no longer economically viable either. But since Boeing is footing the entire bill for all this Starliner rework expense, NASA is happy let them do so. It is also ironic that is was ex Boeing people who helped get SpaceX where they are today.

It also seems crazy to me to put people on the Boeing Starliner system after so major a rework without first doing an unmanned test flight. But as has been demonstrated, safety is no longer in the Boeing vocabulary.

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Post ID: @1vym+1rGQI1jy

They should make Calhoun the first to fly in this POS

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Post ID: @1qmd+1rGQI1jy

Yet another Boing disaster just waiting to happen...

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