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Launch delay: SpaceX pushes Polaris Dawn astronaut launch due to ‘a ground-side helium leak’ – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)
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Seems like it's always helium, doesn't it?

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[–] Tar_alcaran 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Quick, ask Boeing for adv... no wait.

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

The could check with SLS, which, wait, no, and also Boeing.

ULA could probably give some actual useful insight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There should be one person, ONE, whose whole life is checking/testing seals on thrusters. He's like a monk, no wife or children, his whole life is the freakin' seals. After 10 years of dedication, hand him a lavish pension, buy him a fine farm and release him from his vows.

[–] Tar_alcaran 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That wouldn't work.

Boeing knew there was a leak, said it wasn't too bad and launched anyway. Then they reconsidered. The great O-Ring Monk wouldn't have fixed this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Don't take my dreams! We need religious orders of monk engineers, like in "A Canticle for Leibowitz".

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

Let's know what helium is doing before doing the thing!