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Fifth helium leak detected on Starliner (spacenews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/spaceflight

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The only option they had were to send another shuttle up and transfer to it. There was nothing in place to repair the heat shielding, even if they had known the amount of damage.

The shuttle transfer would have been something never attempted or even planned for.