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Starliner was actually a gigantic POS that almost couldn't dock

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of-what-flying-starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/

!spacechads "Hello, Major Tom, are you receiving?

Turn the thrusters on, we're standing by"

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As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore, had to take manual control of the vehicle. But as Starliner's thrusters failed, Wilmore lost the ability to move the spacecraft in the direction he wanted to go.


Wilmore: "I don't know that we can come back to Earth at that point. I don't know if we can. And matter of fact, I'm thinking we probably can't. So there we are, loss of 6DOF control, four aft thrusters down, and I'm visualizing orbital mechanics. The space station is nose down. So we're not exactly level with the station, but below it. If you're below the station, you're moving faster. That's orbital mechanics. It's going to make you move away from the station. So I'm doing all of this in my mind. I don't know what control I have. What if I lose another thruster? What if we lose comm? What am I going to do?"

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Daily reminder that Boeing got the contract for the new F-47 jet :marseyretardcheers:

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Tfw you go to bomb one of Iran's nuclear sites but you crash into it instead :marseyplanecrash:

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:#marseykamikaze:

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It's a good thing we don't have waste, fraud, or abuse anymore.

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TBF apparently from what I've heard that the fighter dev team is the last of the old Northrop Grumman boys. So it should be more competent.

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>cost: $1 trillion

>Units produced: 17

>Performance: slightly worse than an F-35 in all areas, but with 6x the maintenance per flight hour

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Darn, this is way way worse than I expected. I assumed it was more like there was a 1% chance something would go wrong on reentry and they didn't want to risk it, but this sounds closer to a 1% chance that nothing would go wrong. :marseyyikes:

Notice that the Centaur stage did fine though. You can always trust 1950s technology. :marseyboomer:

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Agent orange was from the 50s, I'm sure you still trust what your baby killing dad bathed in as you sit in your chair, lol

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He's gonna get compensation because he theoretically possibly could have been exposed to it. :marseylaugh:

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Contraceptive pills were also invented in the 1950s.

Too bad ur momma didn't use them.

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So I'm doing all of this in my mind

:#braincubetalking:

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If there was any group that would actually be visualizing differential equations in their head on the fly to solve an immediate problem, I would probably guess "astronaut" lol

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:#marseyastronaut2: :#marseykneel:

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I don't know that we can come back to Earth at that point. I don't know if we can. And matter of fact, I'm thinking we probably can't.

Why is this chud repeating heckin Trump misinfo? I was told they weren't stranded by Trusted Fact Checkers :marseyindignant:

Many of the questions concerned the politically messy end of the mission, in which the Trump White House claimed it had rescued the astronauts after they were stranded by the Biden administration. This was not true, but it is also not a question that active astronauts are going to answer. They have too much respect for the agency and the White House that appoints its leadership. They are trained not to speak out of school. As Wilmore said repeatedly on Monday, "I can't speak to any of that. Nor would I."

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i always love "THIS ISNT TRUE". B-word just say "yes they're stuck but not due to the administration. This was a Boeing frick up. Sleepy Joe can't personally inspect rockets now can he?"

But because of that, they just undermine their whole credibility.

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I think the main issue isn't that the tin can was a dud (it happens), but that the processes at NASA and whatever advice they received from Boeing still allowed the launch to continue after multiple faults were discovered.

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Like don't worry dude, that light is always red lol

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1739271948y52utXmckBNkwg.webp

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Looks fine to me

https://media.tenor.com/lTiLGw2pDLUAAAAx/interstellar-endurance.webp

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B O E I N G

Q U A L I T Y

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If it's Boeing I'm not Goeing :marseynorf:

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I'm doing all of this in my mind

CIA psi project is bearing fruit

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