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Boeing Starliner Flight of NASA Astronauts Is Scrubbed (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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NASA astronauts will have to wait until another day to launch to orbit in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. The planned launch was called off Monday night because of a problem in the Atlas V rocket that was to send them to space.

Engineers will work through the night to assess whether the two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, can get back on the launchpad on Tuesday, or if repairs will be needed that could delay the flight by at least several days.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

Making your engineers work overnight is a great idea. The mind is super good at problem solving when it's overworked and sleep deprived. What could possibly go wrong?

Space exploration when it's nationalised: Scientific breakthroughs. Learning about the very fabric of the universe, exploring new frontiers of nature and using the research to help invent life saving machines like MRIs, artificial hearts and insulin pumps.

Space exploration when it's privatized: Space tourism on piss leaking shuttles that barely work, but only for rich people to gawk at space and do nothing of value. No significant breakthroughs in space exploration.

Yes, they made a reuseable rocket or some shit. I don't care. Humanity built spaceships from the ground up over 70 fucking years ago using 50s/60s technology, Tesla/Boeing/Virgin has 70 years of research to build from and they've done dick all considering what they have to work with.

I'm so glad we're wasting our limited space fuel resources on this rich pissbaby dick waving shit.

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

they made a reuseable rocket or some shit

Or have they? Baikal-Angara system predates space ex meme boosters by a long while. They were only scrapped because USSR went pop and, well, everything got scrapped

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

Good point

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