The problematic Boeing Starliner should be leaving the Space Station in about 24 minutes.
UPDATE: It left the station and landed safely.
It will try to return to Earth in about 6 hours and Starliner will contain no astronauts. They had thruster problems and helium leaks.
They had to fix the software over a month to switch from crewed mode to uncrewed.
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I’m glad it came back with no one on it. At lease no one could die. Good God, what has happened to the great company that “used” to be Boeing? The once great company that made the 707, or 747, planes that by their nature created the future we all live in today. No one today, thinks twice about getting on a plane and flying across an ocean. Atlantic, Pacific, does not matter. Boeing made this “so common” nobody noticed. Until things went wrong, then we did notice.
It’s a testament to people who built such formidable technology, what went wrong? Was it the technology’s (not likely), or the people behind it (now there’s a thought) the “problem”? Gang, we have B-52H aircraft in front line service the last one was built in 1962. Don’t believe me? Look it up… Makes the Energizer Bunny look like a fossil. This is so depressing.
In addition…
Let’s not forget Boeing’s great contributions to WWII…
B-17, B-29, B-50.
Landing on the ground rather than the ocean is a cool development for American capsules, if nothing else. That is, assuming it was meant to land there and not the ocean. Nothing would surprise me with this capsule any more.
Boeing bird cage liner.
It’s back and it didn’t explode.
Great.
Still the precautions with the astronauts were warranted.
Waiting for the QA whistleblower to die before testimony of natural, gunshot-wound related causes.
Unrefutable – not fit for astronauts – billion $ too late