6 points

Who would expect something like that…

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They said after the first leak that it wasn’t an issue since they calculated that it would take 4 leaks of that size to disable the thruster system. Now they have 3.

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I hope we didn’t assume the odds of each leak was an independent event. Same failure mode and maybe we have uncovered something systemic! Kind of scary

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Since the cause of the first leak was a defective rubber seal, it would have made sense to replace all of them. I’m pretty sure they didn’t use different types of seals on each thruster port. But for that, they would have had to disassemble the spacecraft and that would have taken too long for the available launch windows.

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22 points

It’s a good thing rubber seals have never caused any problems in spaceflight

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4 points

And the titanic was unsinkable

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22 points

You gotta be fuckin kidding me. How could they launch this thing?

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26 points

Because Boeing has evidently become a “safety third” sort of company over the last several decades

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11 points

Better question is, why did NASA let them

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15 points

I’m sitting down, waiting for Scott Manley’s analysis video to drop. I’d hope there are valid and sane reasons why they thought it should go ahead, but something like this was so obviously going to happen.

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5 points

Probably because they were contractually obligated. Nasa and Boeing entered into their agreement in 2019 when SpaceX was making headlines for reusable rockets and the Starship announcement. Boeing had FOMO they might miss out on government money so they made their own rockets with blackjack and hookers. Sadly, now Boeing is working hard to keep up while also trying to not kill more people with their “flying” machines.

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8 points

“Well, some of them are built so that the front doesn’t fall off at all.” 🤣

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2 points

Narrator: “This was a lie.”

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1 point

Interesting watch from a recent Smarter Every Day video on this very topic. https://youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU?feature=shared

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11 points

Particularly embarrassing considering the incredible progress SpaceX is making, including today’s launch and successful splashdown of both starship and the booster. The entry was wild, too - one of the fins burned halfway off, but the damn thing still worked fine lol

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5 points

Maybe they’ll put a Starliner in the cargo bay of the next Starship launch.

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5 points

Lmao that would be goddamn priceless. Even if it was just an external mockup with ballast to simulate full mission mass of the capsule… Jesus, that would be an absolutely hilarious amount of shade for them to throw.

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Only a matter of time for another Challenger incident to set space exploration back another 20 years.

I think most in society get that human space exploration is extremely risky, but to flirt with that risk with a known variable tipping the scales the wrong way seems like a business decision rather than an engineering one.

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Imagine those morons end up destroying the ISS. Boeing has really gone down the shitter. I don’t even know why they launched this scrap heap in the first place. Shortcuts like this are completely unacceptable in regards to space travel.

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