Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. Here’s what’s at stake | CNN
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Two NASA test pilots helming the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft are in a tentative position as mission teams scramble to learn more about issues that plagued the first leg of the journey.
  • doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml
    226·
    5 months ago

    Thanks, Obama. Really glad you privatized space travel. It’s going great. Our space program now consists of Guy who wants space apartheid, and company whose name is synonymous with planes that crash for no reason.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      6·
      5 months ago

      I mean, private companies have been responsible for every launch since the Soviet Union fell (unless China is fully state owned, I don’t know)

      NASA modifies equipment sometimes but they were always buying launch vehicles from private industry.

      • SinJab0n@mujico.org
        2·
        5 months ago

        private companies have been responsible for every launch since the Soviet Union fel

        they were always buying launch vehicles from private industry.

        So… u r telling me the private sector only came after homework was done, just taking the rights to produce and sell? who could have guessed…