Boeing Insists Astronauts ‘Are Not Stranded’ as They’re Stuck in Space for over 3 Weeks – IOTW Report

Boeing Insists Astronauts ‘Are Not Stranded’ as They’re Stuck in Space for over 3 Weeks

Sunday, 30 June 2024, 13:00 MJA Uncategorized 34

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A pair of NASA astronauts are still stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) while the Boeing spacecraft they traveled in experiences issues, as Boeing insists that “the astronauts are not stranded.”

Butch Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams were supposed to return to Earth on the Boeing Starliner on June 14 after completing a “test drive” of the new capsule, but they have since been stuck for more than three weeks, the Associated Press reported. 

While NASA and Boeing work to troubleshoot equipment problems that reportedly “popped up on the way there,” three potential return dates were called off for the astronauts. 

The Starliner’s issues have included problems with docking at the ISS, and several leaks of helium, which is used to pressurize fuel for the capsule’s thrusters.

“So far, we don’t see any scenario where Starliner is not going to be able to bring Butch and Suni home,” NASA commercial crew program manager Steve Stich said at a press conference last week. more

34 Comments on Boeing Insists Astronauts ‘Are Not Stranded’ as They’re Stuck in Space for over 3 Weeks

  3. “What’s our helium pressure?”

    “Zero, sir. Captain, we just doon’t have the power!”

    “Captain! She’s gonna blow! Jettison the pod!”

    “But you’ll die!”

    “I’m gonna die anyway. Jettison the pod!”

    “The pod has been jettisoned, Captain.”

    “He’s dead, Jim.”

    NASA and Boeing are so full of it. Sad thing is, it didn’t used to be true.

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  7. Anyone who believes a single word that comes out of government or any quasi State Owned Enterprise, which BOEING clearly is… is an idiot’s idiot. Absolutely nothing they say is to be believed at this juncture. Nothing. Not one damn thing.

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  9. “So far, we don’t see any scenario where Starliner is not going to be able to bring Butch and Suni home,”

    That’s funny…I can see several scenarios where they don’t come home, starting with the inability to pressurize the fuel for the thrusters. But I’m just a simple country structural engineer; what do I know.

    This was the one chance Boeing had to redeem themselves, and they blew it.

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  11. There once was a time, long, long ago, in the days before DEI, in which NASA & Boeing would be where you looked to fix a mess such as this. Not to have caused it.

    Every Goddamned thing that DEI is melting down around it. That is a natural consequence of what happened when any “progressive social experiment” goes live and what works so well in theory (in the goddamn morons’ wet dreams) is put into practice.

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  13. For a very long time the top execs at Boeing were/had been, hands on guys. They KNEW what it took to make structures that were some of the most sophisticated and demanding items in existamce. Before DEI was a thing, these guys were eased or pushed out by the bean counters. An MBA carried more weight than understanding what business the company was in. Meeting the quarterly profit target became more important than anything else. When the guiding hand from upper management that knew their business was supplanted with production targets, well, this is what you get.

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  19. So I guess boeing no longer employs old, white guys… Wasn’t there a doomed submersible built by the young and the clueless?
    FJB

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  22. Too many forced issues and “design by committee”. Same crap that gave us the Challenger disaster.

    What was that Boeing unofficial slogan? Oh yeah: “Quality is king, but schedule is god.”

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  23. Sidebar

    It was in the Apollo 1 capsule that a 1967 fire took the lives of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. The capsule was designed for a 100% Oxygen atmosphere, had a plug style door that couldn’t be opened against high internal pressure, and contained materials not tested to be fireproof. The prime contractor for the Apollo capsule was North American Aviation. By way of mergers and acquisitions, NAA became part of North American Rockwell, which became Rockwell International, and finally is now a chunk of Boeing.

    Boeing has a history. Yay, Boeing. 😧

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  24. It’s nothing more than the FIU Pedestrian Bridge Collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_University_pedestrian_bridge_collapse
    or the Titan Submersible Implosion
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion
    or the Gaza Pier fiasco
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-workers-begin-removing-aid-stuck-on-us-gaza-pier-after-security-fears/
    or… .. .

    It is not a function of global warming or any other of their horseshit excuses. It is the natural consequence of good and decent people conceding good intentions to individuals who flat out reject the notion that they aren’t “the ones we have been waiting for.” To quote what the arrogant, narcissistic shitbags own rhetoric. They believe themselves, either individually or collectively, to be all knowing. Not only are not what they would have you believe, they are full of shit.

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  25. Uncle Al SUNDAY, 30 JUNE 2024, 17:20 AT 5:20 PM

    Pure oxygen environment you don’t need flammable materials and even “flame retardant” are not inflammable, the oil on the skin skin would’ve burst into flames with some sparks. As for door pressure, should’ve been only 1/2 p.s.i. to “set the seals”, but yep, with no pressure relief mechanism you aren’t getting it open.

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  27. For forty years mechanical assemblies have been designed by solid modelers. Software that allows you to design the individual component parts and then mate them in the final assembly to verify form fit ad function. Probably the most powerful is ProE, (Pro Engineer). That’s the product that most of Boeing has been using. About for the last decade they’ve incorporated “Behavioral Modeling” into these programs. Behavioral Modeling allows the engineering team to test the assembly and run diagnostics on it while it’s still on the computer. There’s no excuse for these type of mistakes. It almost has to be done intentionally.

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  28. My father in law was a career Boeing engineer (RIP, Rod) in the 60’s-80’s. He was proud as hell of his company. He’s probably spinning in his grave now.

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