• Beaver
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    823 days ago

    Boeing and redundancy are like oil and water

    • atocci
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      23 days ago

      To be fair, regarding redundancy:

      The astronauts only need seven hours of “free-flight time” to perform the end-of-mission maneuvers and Starliner currently has enough helium for 70 hours of free-flight time, Boeing said.

      • @[email protected]
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        1323 days ago

        Boeing said

        Do we really trust them at this point? I mean, if true that’s great, but they’ve lied before.

        • atocci
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          23 days ago

          From a business point of view, I don’t think lying about this is in their best interest. If they lie to the FAA about their passenger planes, maybe they get an investigation and a fine. If they lie to NASA about the safety of Starliner, they lose their only customer for it.

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          122 days ago

          Trust? No.

          Hoping their greed results in safe conclusion to the mission.