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NASA freezes Starliner missions

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269 points rntn | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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elintknower ◴[17 Oct 24 21:07 UTC] No.41873803[source]▶
That took long enough. Insane that the gov was entirely silent after this week's starship launch as well...

Even though I'm not an elon fan, pretending to not notice for political reasons (not to mention the insane halving of launches at Vandenberg AFB) is completely insane and damaging to our country.

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everybodyknows ◴[17 Oct 24 21:40 UTC] No.41874106[source]▶
One way to read the delay was that the technical teams were working against a deadline clock that started as soon as the vehicle landed, to analyze and propose remedies for the thruster failures and helium leaks. And now they've hit that deadline, having found no good fixes.
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1. elintknower ◴[18 Oct 24 17:20 UTC] No.41881499[source]▶
Yes, because they're an inferior option to supply launch services to the ISS.

Stop apologizing for a company that let their standards slip and endangered the lives of multiple astronauts not to mention wasting billions of tax payer dollars.