🧵 BOEING IS BACK!
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:06:28 UTC No. 16365973
(without the 2 stranded astronauts)
After being stuck on the ISS for 80 days on an 8-day mission, the stuck Boeing Starliner capsule has finally returned to Earth (without the astronauts).
I want everybody on /g/ to APOLOGIZE to Boeing for doubting them all this time.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:17:28 UTC No. 16365974
>>16365973
>lands
why didnt the crew ride it? Did it crash back to Earth?
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:19:11 UTC No. 16365975
>guys we rolled the dice and it was a 6!
>ok, but what kind of dice was it?
>Iunno. if we understood our own logs we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:21:17 UTC No. 16365976
>>16365973
So now what? NASA has to go crying back to Elon now?
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:21:28 UTC No. 16365977
>>16365974
Because it was a risk that they didn't need take.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:23:10 UTC No. 16365978
>>16365976
>NASA has to go crying back to Elon now?
Why do you make it sound like NASA has beef with Elon?
NASA contracted both of them at the same time, and even contracted SpaceX for more flights after the Starliner delays.
I don't understand why you would phrase it like that.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:24:58 UTC No. 16365979
Oh no, they’re stuck in space! Oh no they’re stuck in the most advanced space station ever with 7 or so other astronauts and plenty of food, water, and other resources oh no! They’re stranded in space!
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:26:59 UTC No. 16365980
>>16365974
Based anon remembering Maoyuu.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:28:08 UTC No. 16365981
>>16365979
Oh no, one of only three viable options for transport to and from the ISS is scaring us a little. can you imagine if we had less, haha. I mean two options and one of them with a geopolitical rival? NASA would never allow that, right?
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:29:10 UTC No. 16365982
>>16365976
ironically Elon wanted to fly to rescue them already. They're getting cockblocked by the (((FAA))) who is literally in league with Boeing to not make SpaceX look like a knight in shining armor.
Boeing would rather keep the two in orbit for the next six months than release the red tape on SpaceX that they don't have to deal with on their projects and have them rescued in a month or two.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:30:10 UTC No. 16365983
>>16365981
haha that would be crazy
anyway let's piss off SpaceX too by cockblocking them with the FAA on every minor project haha
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:31:29 UTC No. 16365984
>>16365978
People who don't actually pay attention to spaceflight and listen to retards like thunderf00t have the impression that NASA is just totally being ripped off by SpaceX for every single thing.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:31:41 UTC No. 16365985
>>16365979
I wonder what the other 7 russians there are doing to the two Americans who's third world country can't field a rocket to rescue them like they can
they must be playing all sorts of pranks hoho
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:37:50 UTC No. 16365986
>>16365985
Whose*
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:43:01 UTC No. 16365987
>>16365982
What's the FAA doing this time?
(Nothing, that's what. They don't need "rescuing", it was up to NASA to decide how they were going to handle the crew exchange. SpaceX just needed to be available if NASA called on them, and they didn't.)
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:43:48 UTC No. 16365988
>>16365985
Don't throw stones in glass houses you asiatic subhuman
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:44:48 UTC No. 16365989
>>16365973
Safety first culture at its finest
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:46:31 UTC No. 16365990
>>16365988
That was a Proton launch from like 11 years ago.
Only the freshest content for Tiktok.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:48:47 UTC No. 16365991
>>16365987
FAA did ground F9 for a second because a booster didn't land.
The grounding was seen as bureaucratic overreach by anyone who is sane and had it gone through then the next Crew-9 mission would be delayed.
Some stuff was probably said in the back channels to keep F9 going.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:49:43 UTC No. 16365992
>>16365987
>What's the FAA doing this time?
>(Nothing, that's what
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-re
>FAA Requires SPACEX take over 75 actions to mitigate environmental impact
Lemme guess the shill bingo: You're going to say it's biased against the FAA, right?
>Faa.org
Oh.
Boeing owns the FAA. Outright. There's no point denying it: The FAA is an arm of boeing. That's why Boeing can have multiple of its fleet crash within the span of several years without any red tape from the FAA, and SpaceX requires lengthy and stringent regulation over environmental red tape that Boeing wipes its ass with as it plunges another rocket into the ocean.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:50:31 UTC No. 16365993
>>16365974
You know the saying
If it's Boeing I'm not going
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:50:57 UTC No. 16365994
>>16365988
hey you know what China and Russia can do that the USA can't?
launch a rocket and bring it back
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:51:45 UTC No. 16365995
>>16365991
>a booster didn't land
maybe I'm missing some details but that kind of sounds like "the bomb squad is getting all fussy because my controlled explosion didn't go off." that kind of seems like something the FAA should be concerned with
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:51:58 UTC No. 16365996
>>16365994
AAAIEEEE BURGERSISTERS WE GOT TOO COCKY
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:53:05 UTC No. 16365997
>>16365989
>noooo there was an overheating event
>noooo the insulation might be scorched
>noooo our simulations say the seals could be damaged
>noooo there was a MS misfire on a few thrusters
>noooo the craft makes a spooky sound
Women, not even oonce
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:53:21 UTC No. 16365998
>>16365995
Boeing and Amazon have literally lost multiple rockets in the same time frame and this "Bomb squad" didn't say shit. They smiled and clapped when the one rocket they didn't lose made it to the ISS (couldn't return manned btw)
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:56:49 UTC No. 16365999
>>16365992
>https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-r
>something completely unrelated
Dumb.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 14:59:39 UTC No. 16366000
>>16365991
Pretty sure it was just standard procedure, and then SpaceX requested permission to keep flying while the FAA investigates.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 15:06:07 UTC No. 16366001
>>16365995
The booster landing legs seemingly failed after it touched down on its barge.
The primary objective of launching the rocket and deploying the payload was otherwise successful, the booster just didn't land.
It's seen as bullshit because every other rocket that isn't F9 blows up and crashes in the ocean after use. SpaceX themselves blew up plenty of boosters on their barges 10 years ago when they were working towards getting F9 to land.
The FAA didn't care either way.
The grounding was purely based on paperwork. Other rockets have it on paper they don't expect to recover the booster and it's going to crash in the ocean. SpaceX had it on paper 10 years ago they don't expect successful landings but will attempt them. Fast forward to now and the FAA paperwork that SpaceX gave them now says they expect landings and since one failed the FAA threw a hissy fit because the paperwork says expect landings.
>>16366000
"Standard procedure" however in this case was not seen as operating in good faith. There was no public safety issue. and there is precedent of F9 not being grounded after landing failures. The grounding announcement should have never been public as it's just a bad look to ground the US's only domestic ride to the ISS based on paperwork technicality.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 20:02:13 UTC No. 16366453
>>16365973
Elon's ship will put them out of their misery
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 20:25:53 UTC No. 16366494
>>16365981
>one of them with a geopolitical rival
A US astronaut went up on the soyuz last week dumbass
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 21:08:00 UTC No. 16366569
>>16366000
Long Story Short Elon is getting to the point where he will just pull out of Texas and Florida. He will just bail to China even though it's shitty. He will get his starships built and flown there.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Sep 2024 21:40:03 UTC No. 16366610
>>16365988
>02.09.2024
I'm pretty sure the video is fake news and is a modified (horizontally mirrored) copy of a failed launch a couple of years ago (IIRC)
Anonymouse at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:03:41 UTC No. 16368959
>>16365973
>>>/g/102290715
Boeing is so fucked, they can't even build rockets OR capsules OR even planes anymore
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:23:35 UTC No. 16368983
>>16365974
>first post is an absolute retard who can't even access the news with Google
>three other retards don't even notice what a fucking useless twat they're replying to
wtf happened to /sci/...this used to be in competition with /lit/ for the brainiest board on the site.
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:51:30 UTC No. 16369006
>>16368983
then covid came and it got filled with anti-vax and generally anti-science botted posting for years.
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 05:58:16 UTC No. 16369277
>>16368983
>this used to be in competition with /lit/ for the brainiest board on the site
Well, /lit/ has also plummeted in quality (along with the rest of 4chan), so technically, this is still correct.
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 07:03:31 UTC No. 16369329
just one more booster for total covid protection
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 07:21:47 UTC No. 16369344
>>16365994
This is true, I’ve seen thousands of tank turrets tossed into the stratosphere and return terra firma over the past couple years. Really quite impressive
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Sep 2024 09:48:16 UTC No. 16369431
>>16365978
because bureaucrats are petty people. We could have all this much earlier but they killed the idea because they were being outdone by a outsider that spend only a fraction of the money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDon