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Boeing's Starliner has 5 'small' helium leaks as astronauts' ISS mission is extended: NASA (abcnews.go.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Boeing and redundancy are like oil and water

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

To be fair, regarding redundancy:

The astronauts only need seven hours of "free-flight time" to perform the end-of-mission maneuvers and Starliner currently has enough helium for 70 hours of free-flight time, Boeing said.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Boeing said

Do we really trust them at this point? I mean, if true that's great, but they've lied before.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

From a business point of view, I don't think lying about this is in their best interest. If they lie to the FAA about their passenger planes, maybe they get an investigation and a fine. If they lie to NASA about the safety of Starliner, they lose their only customer for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Trust? No.

Hoping their greed results in safe conclusion to the mission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If they succeed, it'll be in spite of their greed, not because of it.

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