NASA not risking the return of astronauts on Boeing’s Starliner

[@benjohnson5363]

Boeing shouldn't be trusted to build paper airplanes, WTH happened to that industry???

[@steadly3668]

DEI hiring practices.

[@AbigailGriffin-l6k]

Greed

[@Djreactions831]

@@steadly3668first off stfu no it’s not. It was corporate corruption and greed which is obvious given how they been cutting safety measures for years to increase production of there plans and profits and bribing the FAA. Blaming literally EVERYTHING on DEI with literally zero proof of its effects on this issue is just quite racism.

[@gOD_SmackED]

​@steadly3668, were you going for sheer stupidity or just general idiocy?

[@purplehayes1993]

Greedier people.

[@earthdart5937]

why is Boeing creating Rocket Ships.. They can't even manage airplanes

[@HAWKSTA24]

They aren’t creating rockets. Do your research before posting

[@jtejada615]

⁠​⁠@@HAWKSTA24doesn’t matter if they’re creating airplanes, rockets, naval ships, or paper planes, they can’t get it together and that’s the bottom line.

[@Digitalgems9000]

@@HAWKSTA24 found the boeing shill lol how does it feel little buddy

[@carlodumas1971]

@@HAWKSTA24 rocket thrusters on the spacecraft produced by Boeing still is a rocket.. which in the news says it has a problem

[@AmbientMorality]

@@carlodumas1971 Rocket usually refers to a launch vehicle. Starliner is a spacecraft. It can't launch from earth without a rocket (a launch vehicle), but it can maneuver in orbit using rocket engines (very low-thrust ones designed for precise movements, called thrusters).

[@jayharris832]

I wouldn’t put them on BOEING anything… no way.

[@michaelpadilla8061]

Bet the Boeing CEO got millions of dollars in bonus

[@island97]

He's stepping down so won't have to deal with the backlash

[@untouchable360x]

@@island97 His golden parachute is more than what he's making this year. Golden parachutes are usually at least 1.5x of annual compensation. So they're getting paid for being incompetent.

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

He did

[@ovalwingnut]

The "Good OL Boy's Club".... aka G.R.E.E.D

[@RicardoK-ng5ch]

Time to leave space travel to the professionals and have Space X do it.

[@tailoredfor831]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂.... space x??😂😂😂😂😂

[@jvtmotors]

What an embarrassment. How many Billion did they spend on this? They can't even get to the space station and back?

[@martycech5844]

The ‘Billions of Dollars’ funneled into Corporate pockets… follow the money

[@Hawken707]

And we went to the moon?😅

[@maelawa244]

SpaceX has been doing these launches since 2020. Other American companies can do things in space, this situation is just Boeing's fault.

[@ronnymatthews4133]

A Gilligan's..er..ISLAND,PLANET, ?anybody ?¿😮❤

[@Jogeta5]

Boeing was awarded $4.2 billion with a fixed-priced contract and has spent $1.6 billion on top of that.

[@dhickey5919]

We just need Butch and Suni to come home safe. This was the right call.

[@RoyceBenning]

Boeing lost its credibility with the 737 max, we can’t trust their spaceships. All in on Elon

[@BlahBlah-em2ed]

Also, delivering half assed KC-46 aircraft to the Air Force.

[@ovalwingnut]

That's how we have to look at it. And realize that the "issueS" we know about are "only" the ones that have been discovered. You'd have to place a huge ❓ over the entire aircraft (minus the engines). If that door 'hiccup' was able to get through inspection (using the term loosely) then how about the other 10,000 bolts

[@Greenguy60]

Let’s not forget what happens to Boeing whistleblowers either, that corporation is evil

[@OO-nb2kt]

Careful nasa…. We all know what Boeing does to those who disagree with them..

[@Neotron2001]

A 3 hour tour?

[@josbertoromero2927]

Space X hires based on quality and merit, its focus on good products, not agendas.

[@flodareltih9825]

If it’s Boeing, it ain’t working.

[@anthonylnca8737]

Contract 4.5 billion - boeing 2 billion - space x

[@AmbientMorality]

2.7 for SpaceX. They also already had Cargo Dragon so that helped...

[@JimwombatLand]

WILL THEY EVER GET HOME ?? NASA CANT HELP !!

[@waxedearth5425]

Are they getting paid overtime?

[@frankm7707]

Gilligan's Island 2025. Skipper Jonas Grumby: You don't know anything about space. Gilligan: I do know one thing. You take up more of it than I do.

[@CatholicForever1]

Glad that they decided not to risk it

[@poppystars9005]

This is what happens when you have corporate capture of our government.

[@neoevans7833]

Elon Musk to the rescue...again

[@S.V.TeFiti]

Call Elon....

[@stopchildabuse7932]

They did

[@HAWKSTA24]

What an embarrassment for the Boeing company. The mission was scrubbed multiple times before finally going to space and when they did, the darn thing turned out to be a piece of junk. Now Spacex has to bail out NASA.

[@Yooper2024]

I wonder what that will cost us for Boeing's failure.

[@Pr0toPoTaT0]

Ridiculous but im happy to keep them safe instead of riding back in starliner.

[@georgspence4999]

Look like Boeing builds its space ship as crappy as its airliners now.

[@FattymcstattyMcormick-pv6pj]

Equity before safety

[@yewtingfong3911]

Looks like sky is the limit for Boeing😂

[@IOSARBX]

ABC News, you're redefining what it means to create content

[@yesimemoin0935]

why is NASA so involved in these supposedly private space flight companies?

[@Halluci44]

Am i crazy or did we all sort of believed or might assume that if this ever happened they would have a backup rescue ship they could send up fairly quickly? Like a rescue mission to the space station i just thought would be a little easier if not more timely

[@trogdorstrngbd]

They aren't in any immediate danger so it's not necessary to spend $50+ million on an emergency rescue. They'll just send 2 less astronauts up on the next scheduled SpaceX Dragon flight.

[@kissbela4936]

Last week my Ryanair flight (Boeing) was delayed as well 2 hours . It's very annoying.

[@parrotbrand2782]

I already told Nasa not to use spacecraft ordered from Temu.

[@jamesabc372]

"Lowest bidder" wins the contract!😢

[@Mike-j7o]

Call Trump to ask Elon to help you out of your mess, nasa.

[@Yooper2024]

Wait, isn't the Vice President in charge of NASA? Well Camela, where are you?

[@taylort8674]

​@@Yooper2024again

[@stoepkakker8361]

Hi NASA. How’s your DEI program going?

[@jamesabc372]

Government: " lowest bidder wins!!" Which will have a trickle down effect ,using sub, sub contractors.😢😮

[@wanderingquestions7501]

At least starliner falls down correctly

[@protectorp]

Will they go crazy in the space station for such unexpectedly long time?

[@watchdog5678]

Guess will learn effects of humans in space exsposed to radiation.

[@sukhkaur9440]

But they risked sending them to space on one.

[@hidden-treasures]

I retired at the right time. When I started in Engineering, Engineers ran our projects. When I left, my last three bosses were not Engineers. They got more and more "light weight" every year. They started spitting on the Engineers, and throwing money at the CPAs. My last meeting with the Director, she lectured us on how she hated working with Engineers, and that was our "Christmas Bonus". In short, this is an Industry problem in too many organizations.

[@honahwikeepa2115]

They're expecting kitten's.

[@jacobprudhomme]

When they said Boeing was taking them I knew some stuff was gonna go wrong. We all did. Other than NASA apparently

[@Anurania]

I wouldn't want to be a pilot at the moment, worrying if the plane is going to randomly fall apart because Boeing built it.

[@youtubemademecreateanewcha6965]

So all the talk about the starliner will bring the astronauts back after running a few tests was just bS.

[@bradmoyer9737]

Boeing exercising an abundance of caution, stressing a safety first ethos, amidst fears the door might fly off on the return flight home.

[@bridgetiliohan8053]

How do they get food for 8 months ?

[@AmbientMorality]

They're on the ISS, which has lots of supplies for the typical crew of around 6-10 astronauts, and regular uncrewed cargo missions come up often.

[@hexbinoban6170]

Soviet [1960] :: We will send Laika First , then Humans Nasa [2024] :: We wil send Humans First , then Laika

[@The_Quaalude]

If its Boeing they ain't going 😂

[@Neotron2001]

Temu Engineering

[@8spores]

Boeing replaced senior engineers with cheap Indian mid management, cheap Indian software and unreliable Indian helium valves. So the outcome is predictable.

[@lelandmartin6840]

I wouldn't trust Elon Musk with his mushroom usage or Boeing with any kind of space travel

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

Why not trust Musk? SpaceX is the world leaders in space currently.

[@MsGuerra2024]

Greetings from Mission, Texas! We would appreciate a shout-out to the middle school students of Ms. Lopez and Ms. Guerra at Sharyland AEC. Go sidewinders! Your updates about the current events happening around the world are greatly appreciated and we look forward to watching them every morning. Thank you! 😀

[@Ethredge27]

Man talk about Boeing taking a 💩📉

[@arionly8479]

I really casnt believe this

[@ronnymatthews4133]

? An 8 day TOUR¿holy gilligans island😮bayma 😮🎉

[@ronnymatthews4133]

Uum, sorry😮that's HOLY GILLIGANS ISLAND😮BATMAN🎉❤😮

[@Runnifier]

Play stupid games, get stupid prizes… this waste of money is why you shouldn’t have done business with Boeing

[@northerniltree]

Makes the castaways on Gilligan's island seem inconsequential.

[@grahamnorris7315]

They on standby.

[@allengreg5447]

I might have baked trout for dinner, tomorrow night.

[@tamarockstar09]

You would think the space division of Boeing would have a better more strict quality control process than its airplane. But I guess they’re both just skipping out.

[@The_Quaalude]

*PUTS!*

[@Vaejovis357]

It certainly was worth the risk. It was built by an acceptable percentage of “women of color”, homosexuals, transsexuals, gender fluid Jamaicans, Sri Lankans, blind engineers, native Americans, Muslim clerics and other underrepresented oppressed groups. The project was overseen by a Californian elementary school teacher who is famous for proving that mathematics is racist. Boeing was able to reduce its white male scientists and engineers to a small fraction of the work force after completing an indoctrination course in the shame of being Caucasian. Asian people were completely excluded. So how can anyone question whether or not Boeing’s craft was successful?

[@JeffEbe-te2xs]

NASA said it worked going up Why not down

[@keselekbakiak]

The starliner stuck on iss.

[@joelayoub2774]

How much is this costing tax payers?

[@steadly3668]

About as much as ukraine.

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

Nothing. It is all already paid for by NASA. Boeing has to absorb any additional costs.

[@joelayoub2774]

@@wisemanofsorts6068 You trying to tell me NASA doesn't defer costs?

[@wisemanofsorts6068]

@@joelayoub2774 Nope. This is a fixed price contract. Boeing absorbs any extra costs for Starliner, and the SpaceX Crew 9 was already paid for and planned by NASA. So this doesn't cost anything extra for NASA.

[@Gotchaskillz]

Aren’t they trained to figure out emergencies if they can’t be reached

[@MU-rx1tc]

The problem with having Elon and Space X do it is that the astronauts suits are not compatible with Space X flights , that’s why it’s taking so long, they either have to reconfigure the capsule to accommodate their suits or send up two new space X suits to fit .

[@AmbientMorality]

They already sent one up and the other is coming in September. But they're trying to avoid disrupting the crew schedule so the astronauts have to come back after the next expedition finishes

[@ianpatrick23]

Oof, Boeing

[@Motiv8_Motiv8]

Help Me understand why cannot they just send another spaceshi up . Why do they have to wait for Space X?

[@g_mason8867]

Not in the budget

[@Motiv8_Motiv8]

@@g_mason8867 You think so?

[@M.A.Production-nt5pp]

2024: so much problem's to bring back 2 astronauts...1969 they were dancing and driving on the moon, it was so easy with the 60's technology!..so,the reality is that it was the Biggest Lie of Humanity: They Never Went To The Moon! and still, they are struggling just to keep a couple of people just close to the atmosphere!, come everyone, weak up!

[@johnmd4331]

Fly any boeing product at your own risk

[@mysterymayhem7020]

Good time to sell those Boeing stocks and buy SpaceX

[@tonyv596]

So embarrass for NASA.....

[@MackPedro]

🙏

[@DennyCarmichael-d8v]

Boeing needs to make paper airplanes and cupcakes.

[@dand4075]

Putin should offer to help. For the Soyuz it was a walk in the park.

[@steadly3668]

All thanks to the DEI engineers. 🥂

[@tomato-v8x]

So-called “DEI” living in your head rent-free 😂

[@steadly3668]

@@tomato-v8x You ordered diversity and inclusion now eat up.

[@asicdathens]

Shifting the blame from the good ol' boys club to non existing people doesn't work. This is systemic problem from the top. And the Boeing's top is whiter than Antarctica. Boeing's problems exist because they are ruled by bean counters and MBA's and they are allergic to unions

[@benschuler8487]

This does seem to make the most sense on how Boeing has gone down hill to were they can't even make planes.

[@AmbientMorality]

@@steadly3668 No, the problem is teams siloed from each other, restricted communication between Boeing and suppliers for legal reasons, adversarial supplier relationships in general due to cost cutting, and so on.

[@MrPlumberguy23]

come get me elon!!!

[@B86432]

Embarrassing boeing can return that 4.7 billion

[@alanroberson9749]

Very good job dudes and nicely well done!! Congratulations 995.15% yo throughout the 5th sizzling patriotic hot week of said amazing August y'all. Glad that they decided not to risk it.

[@Im_Just_Saying]

Oh boy, Boeing really outdid themselves this time, didn’t they? If you thought Starliner’s second flight was a comedy of errors, the third one was like a tragic sequel that nobody asked for. It's almost like Boeing decided, "You know what? Let's see how badly we can mess up again," and then delivered with flying colors-well, not literally, because their spacecraft didn’t quite manage the “flying” part all that well. Yeah, let’s get real. Starliner’s third flight was supposed to be its redemption arc. Instead, it turned into another cautionary tale. Two astronauts stuck on the ISS, waiting for a ride home like they’re stuck at the worst airport layover ever? And now SpaceX’s Dragon has to roll in like the competent space Uber to pick them up? Yikes. If that doesn’t scream “mismanagement,” I don’t know what does. And let’s not sugarcoat it: Boeing is more interested in its stockholders than in actually, you know, making a spacecraft that works. They’re like that corporate exec who only cares about the quarterly report and couldn’t care less about whether the wheels are falling off the bus. Or, in this case, whether their multi-million-dollar spacecraft can actually do its job. And this isn’t just a space problem. Have you heard about their airplane issues? The 737 Max fiasco, anyone? When safety and quality take a backseat to profits, you end up with some really dangerous "oopsies." Meanwhile, SpaceX is over here with its Dragon spacecraft, not just talking the talk but walking the walk. They’re focused on innovation, getting stuff done, and making space look cool again. Boeing could learn a thing or two from them-but instead, they’re too busy figuring out how to patch up their latest blunders without tanking their stock price. So yeah, let’s call it what it is: Boeing is stuck in a past where doing the bare minimum was enough. SpaceX is the future, and they’re not waiting around for Boeing to catch up. They've got space stations to build, Mars missions to plan, and-apparently-rescue missions to run for their fumbling competitors.

[@AnythingJW]

tells you how unreliable Boeing is

[@Legion-p6y]

Too many dei hires at Boeing?

[@Royalle_with_Cheese]

They won't even be able to vote but I expect they will be invited to the Harris White House to be honored for their bravery and sacrifice under the circumstances.

[@camilomilfuegos7164]

jajajajajaja

[@HabilUddine-u4i]

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[@beyoncewomack2688]

A leveling tool is a flat bar!,if we lived on a globe the leveling tool would be circle it is not!