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Boeing's Starliner set to fly astronauts for the first time on May 6 (techcrunch.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I think a large part of that was that the majority of the shuttles service was spent in a pre-internet world. We literally didn't know the shuttles weaknesses until there were big incidents like Challenger and Columbia.

I was a kid in 86'. And (like a lot of others I'll bet) I was absolutely in awe of the shuttle. I was enamoured thanks to movies like SpaceCamp, etc...

Nowadays, with starliner, every failure in testing, every flaw, every glitch, is presented on a thousand tech blogs.