NASA says May 17 is the soonest astronauts could launch on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
    • @threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
      3•12 days ago

      For once, this isn’t Boeing’s fault. The valve is on the Centaur upper stage of Atlas V, not Starliner itself.

      • Morphit English
        2•12 days ago

        I’d have thought ULA would do more than just turn it off and on again when the problem occurred in the past. Seems like there’s no way they’d mess with the design at this point in time though.

        • @threelonmusketeersOPMEnglish
          1•11 days ago

          Yeah, there are only a handful of Atlas V launches remaining at this point, so I guess they don’t want to invest heavily in optimizing the design at this point.