Starliner skipped its in-flight abort test and only had one actual uncrewed docking test with the ISS, during which multiple systems failed. That is not adequate testing.
I don’t follow space stuff much, so I mostly know about the early SpaceX rockets blowing up and the usual Elon grifting stuff. I kinda just imagined the pods bursting like a cybertruck.
Those explosions were the discarded first stages at the part of the flight where every other rocket on earth just drops its first stage into the sea or kazakh countryside anyway
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5087892/nasa-starliner-astronaut-return-iss-spacex
That sounds just as bad.
NASA actually made SpaceX do the test flights before putting people on it
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Starliner skipped its in-flight abort test and only had one actual uncrewed docking test with the ISS, during which multiple systems failed. That is not adequate testing.
why? spacex and dragon specifically have a great flight record.
I don’t follow space stuff much, so I mostly know about the early SpaceX rockets blowing up and the usual Elon grifting stuff. I kinda just imagined the pods bursting like a cybertruck.
Those explosions were the discarded first stages at the part of the flight where every other rocket on earth just drops its first stage into the sea or kazakh countryside anyway
I think there is also news from today about potentially concealed electrical problems on the 737 too
edit: looks like this story broke 2 days ago-ish