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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: 0.194s | source
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dotnet00 ◴[19 Oct 24 14:37 UTC] No.41888001[source]▶
Would be clearer to say that its return to flight has been delayed to at least around a year from now.

For the fall/winter 2025 rotation they're going to plan with it being a Crew Dragon flight for now, subject to change depending on how Starliner's fixes go.

They also somewhat misleadingly say that NASA will also rely on Soyuz because of Starliner's unavailability, but that's just about the seat swap arrangement which helps to ensure that both the US and Russia can maintain a continuous presence if either side's vehicles have trouble. IIRC the agreement is expiring and NASA's interested in extending it, but Roscosmos hasn't agreed yet. I say misleading because I think they intended to extend that agreement regardless of Starliner's status.

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JumpCrisscross ◴[19 Oct 24 19:06 UTC] No.41889872[source]▶
> Would be clearer to say that its return to flight has been delayed to at least around a year from now

No. The ISS is decommissioned in 2030 and Boeing is losing money on the programme. It makes sense for nobody to continue this charade.

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dchichkov ◴[19 Oct 24 19:50 UTC] No.41890240[source]▶
It is unhealthy to not have competition to SpaceX.
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1. yarg ◴[20 Oct 24 05:22 UTC] No.41893073[source]▶
So maybe NASA can drop a diversity and inclusion training course or two, and train some American kids to build and eventually design a rocket.

Having one major commercial success story is often the way the market leans, the missing piece here is NASA's own competency lost to its history of politics and bureaucratic bullshit - the missing piece is NASA's own lost greatness;

And people need to stop punishing SpaceX for everyone else being retards.