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Helium leak delays Boeing’s historic Starliner mission at least another week (www.cnn.com)
submitted 7 months ago by Wilshire to c/space
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[–] x4740N 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there's a chance this becomes another challenger

Challenger happened because of negligence if I recall correctly and boeing issues are also happening because of negligence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Challenger happened because the engineers said they shouldn't launch because it was cold and the politicians said just do it anyway.

[–] x4740N 1 points 7 months ago

Replace "politicians" with "boeing" and "engineers" with "boeing staff" and its still plausible