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Boeing will try to fly its troubled Starliner capsule back to Earth next week (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Flying on autopilot, the Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to depart the station at approximately 6:04 pm EDT (22:04 UTC) on September 6. The capsule will fire its engines to drop out of orbit and target a parachute-assisted landing in New Mexico at 12:03 am EDT (04:03 UTC) on September 7, NASA said in a statement Thursday.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure 45 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Since there will be no one on it, I'm sort of hoping it crashes and burns so NASA is justified in their decision and Boeing gets in more shit.

[+] [email protected] -20 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Your hope is nothing but a circlejerk attitude. Your hate is directed at a brand, rather than at the actual people responsible, who have all already dropped the bag and run away from business. Your misdirected malice does nothing to make anything better, and instead lets the real villains get away.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm holding out some hope that if Boeing stops winning any new space contracts that the next generation of bean counters will learn some kind of lesson about not gutting a company. I'm probably too optimistic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The thing is they're entwined with the military, eg the X-37, so they probably will keep getting things like that. No other company makes space vehicles for the US that I'm aware of. Maybe Lockheed Martin have some secret stuff, but with space it's incredibly difficult to get things up there and remain unnoticed.

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