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An unmanned test launch of the Boeing Starliner capsule is now pushed to sometime in the first half of 2022. With any luck the thing will burn up and put the space community out of its misery.
https://www.cnet.com/news/boeing-starlin...k-to-2022/
NASA said Friday that the team behind OFT-2 "is working toward launch opportunities in the first half of 2022." That follows a scrubbed launch this past August. In December 2019, the first major Starliner flight test didn't go as planned, with the uncrewed spacecraft launching but experiencing a timing glitch and failing to reach the ISS. It did, however, safely return to Earth.
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Talk about corporate welfare
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I thought SpaceX was struggling with being a few years behind schedule...but geez. SpaceX is looking like a rockstar now. Not only have they beat Boeing, but NASA are now moving astronauts from Boeing's missions to SpaceX. Boeing is into full on embarrassment territory.
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....Starlight Express......????
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ztirffritz wrote:
I thought SpaceX was struggling with being a few years behind schedule...but geez. SpaceX is looking like a rockstar now. Not only have they beat Boeing, but NASA are now moving astronauts from Boeing's missions to SpaceX. Boeing is into full on embarrassment territory.
And, all the while people were saying that Boeing was "so far ahead that SpaceX should never have been awarded the contract"...
Meanwhile, SpaceX is talking about having their "fleet" of reusable Dragons...
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My favorite quote after the Challenger disaster...
"What happened to NASA ? "
"All the Germans retired."
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"All the Germans retired."
Ach du Lieber! :facepalm:
