Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
Why was this not mentioned before?
That article states it was 56 days after the incident. I meant my question as to why it was not released at the time of the incident. So unless you can show an earlier appearance, my question stands.
Furthermore, the comment immediately preceding mine stated that it was not mentioned at the time. Context matters.
i’m not gonna play defense for NASA or Boeing, just assuming it takes time to investigate properly - probably some PR mentality went into it too but here you go https://www.space.com/starliner-astronaut-mission-landing-delay-july-2024
This article is worth the read. Starliner was in an extremely precarious situation that we didn’t previously know about.
There is an exorbitant of fluff in there though. Expertly so, it’s no ai slop, but someone very cleverly writing, getting payed by the word and rolling it out.
‘Thrusters failed, they turned off and on again, during that time the pilot had to manually fly it. Ironically thanks God afterwards.’
Is the gist of it, but there’s a lot of introspection, retrospection, repeating, rehashing and rephrasing. Reminded me of this Mitchell and Webb scetch
There was a lot more to the article than this. I’ve sat on console during launches,and reading their exchange gave me some anxiety. Trying to live troubleshoot thrusters issues would be a nightmare on an unscrewed satellite, let a lone one where it’s human rated, and the people flying it could die if you are unable to recover fast enough.
You train for this crap excessively, so everyone knows what to do, but that doesn’t make it any less nerve wracking in the moment.
