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NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule (apnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/spaceflight

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[–] threelonmusketeers 21 points 3 months ago (19 children)

Welp, that's that. I wonder how this will affect future flights. Will NASA require an extra test flight prior to Crew-1? If so, Boeing will be one rocket short, as all of the Atlas Vs have already been allocated.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (18 children)

No way Starliner flies again. This whole thing has been a gigantic fiasco from day one. I hope they pull the plug and spend the money on programs with a future.

[–] Jumuta 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

boeing's spending the money not nasa, it's a fixed price contract

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When has that ever happened?

[–] Jumuta 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

only for starliner as far as i know, every other boeing thing is cost plus

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

finally NASA making decent financial decisions

[–] Jumuta 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they really dodged the bullet with this one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yep, it only took 50 years of lessons with the same contractors to learn it am I right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Starliner and Crew Dragon both, if we're talking manned space capsules.

[–] Jumuta 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

crew dragon isn't Boeing is it

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 3 months ago

No, but it is fixed-price, which I think is what @[email protected] was getting at.

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