Yeah, apparently NASA are real sticklers about all the doors staying on all the time. Just ridiculous standards to expect!
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Nanny state foolishness. It's just crewed spaceflight, not rocket science.
Thanks Obama.
If they build without doors at all? Simply weld in the crew with enough food. Why get out of the vessel? Space is deadly anyway.
It's not that hard. I seen the Flintstones, just have the space people put their feet out the bottom and wiggle em real fast.
Why am I not in charge of space launches? Probably people are afraid of my intellect, and massive dong.
(copium)
I'm gonna need pictures of the massive dong incident before deciding if I'm scared or not.
It's umm, a quantum dong. Very rare, it appears very small in photographs but when not observed it is the size of Mount Fuji. Woe is me! To have the dong of the century but cursed to never show it.
Fear the quantum dong!!
So it must be viewed with a blindfold and a pair of hands? So far, semi scared!
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Good on NASA for scrubbing the launch to keep both the astronauts and the launch team safe. That's how it's supposed to work.
Turns out, if your contractor kills enough people with their slapdash products, even go fever has its limits.
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Hey, they finally followed a safety standard.
Don't worry, somebody will off themselves with multiple bullet wounds to the back of the head for this
In space, no one can hear you blow your whistle.
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It wasn't them, ULA followed the safety standards as they make and operate the rocket. 😂
I would not want to get on a boeing rocket right now
Boeing only made the spacecraft. The rocket was ULA (formerly Lockheed design).
ULA is 50% owned by Boeing. Therefore there's only a 50% chance you'll die!
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Right, so you’ll asphyxiate in space
Boeing deserves the scorn, but if it was a joint project with Lockheed it’s probably fine, they’re evil to be sure but they don’t fuck around
Yeah Lockheed always gets the job done right. Usually a decade late and a trillion dollars over budget but the job gets done!
Guess who the other owner of ULA is....
Sure but the rocket being used is Atlas V which is from the Lockheed half of the partnership.
Delta series is what Boeing brought to the ULA partnership. Which they acquired from buying out McDonnell Douglas.
Boeing didn't design either rocket ULA has flown.
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I've been saying this for years now. Boeing is going to kill NASA astronauts if they are allowed to get their way.
It wasn't the space craft it was a valve on the centaur upper stage (second stage)
Exactly. It was a fault on the rocket, which was manufactured by ULA, a joint venture between Lockheed and Boeing....oh, crap
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As much as I’d love to pile on Boeing, the article states the launch was scrubbed due to an issue with ULA’s rocket not the Boeing capsule payload.
ULA is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed, however.
But, again, Boeing spacecraft is a very separate division than commercial aircraft.
And even if it was, it would be the right move. The last thing we want is to stop risk management because there's only 2 hours left and the door hasn't fallen off so far.
That damned door wouldn't stay shut. They might need to put a cinder block against it or something.
Or wedge it closed with an inanimate carbon rod.
"I hate to say I told you so..."
-literally everyone
The Kennedy Space Center has this flight reset for 10May2024, this Friday! Can't imagine how the astronauts feel, having the mission scrubbed whilst all strapped in, told to go home and maybe they'll shoot you into space in the next few days 😅
Knowing what happened to the Challenger after they had an oxygen valve problem, I imagine some degree of relief.
Only to go home and see news articles about Boeing whistleblowers dying.
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another valve?
Yeah, apparently Sony was getting pissy that the astronauts were about to leave the planet without logging into their PSN accounts first. 🤷🏼♂️
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