Another week, another leak for Boeing's Starliner crew capsule Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule will spend a little longer on Earth than planned following the discovery of a leak in one of the spacecraft's reaction control thrusters. For context, a few weeks' delay is nothing compared to the years it has taken Boeing to reach this point. The first crewed launch had been set for May 6. …
One Astronaut did that.. Resigned.. to have more time with family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ferguson
Another due to medical reasons..
Boeing is a tragic example of how a company that was founded by engineers was ruined by accountants...
When NASA gave out the contracts to Boeing and Space X, Space X was a dark horse and a token candidate.. No one expected Space X to really deliver.. and for Boeing to not be going...
I do hope that when this mission happens... no one dies from negligence.
Why do I suspect that Boeing probably has a lot of Teds working for them!
Interestingly, a recent Everyday Astronaut video was comparing a couple of European rocketry startups (Just checked, this one), and one of the startups made the point that the rockets can be made cheaper and more easily because the don't need to be such perfect cylinders nowadays due to the far superior engine control and gimbling available.
"one of the startups made the point that the rockets can be made cheaper and more easily because the don't need to be such perfect cylinders nowadays due to the far superior engine control and gimbling available."
Yes and no. If your car pulls to the right, having power steering makes it easier to correct, but you are still bleeding energy from that.
Engine gimbling is mostly down to how fast you can swing that mass since for a faster acceleration, you need attachment points that can take those loads. There's also a control limit based on how much the engine can be gimbaled. If you exceed the control authority, the rocket is lost. Computing power isn't even much of a factor and Inertial Management devices have been very good for years now. Consider how accurate it is claimed that ICBMs are and that's old tech still on some of those.
It's still valuable to build the rocket as perfect as possible so there isn't the need to put energy into the system to keep it stable. That there can be more margin is best left untapped and kept in reserve for off-nominal circumstances.
Going to space is like going to the office.
If you avoid both you will actually have a much better life.
Theres nothing to do in space, wearing a nappy 24/7/365, getting space sick, living in whats basically a prison...
or you could save time and avoid the commute and use those hours to do something better with your life like smell the roses.
And your odds of actually going to space are... exactly zero (as are mine, and probably everyone's else here), so why the negativity?
Doesn't mean we, collectively, as a species, shouldn't get out there, do the science, engineering, exploration, and all the other things that may one day mean we aren't bound to this one rock in a vast sea of near-nothingness, waiting to be snuffed out by our own stupidity and another big rock.
jimmy: And your odds of actually going to space are...
cow: i dont want to goto space, just like i dont want to live in a prison.
jimmy: exactly zero (as are mine, and probably everyone's else here), so why the negativity?
cow: why should i be forced to positive about it ?
Is this NK ?
jimmy: Doesn't mean we, collectively, as a species, shouldn't get out there, do the science, engineering, exploration, and all the other things that may one day mean we aren't bound to this one rock in a vast sea of near-nothingness, waiting to be snuffed out by our own stupidity and another big rock.
cow: The people on the voyage are not doing science at all, they are celebrities.
They are actually a distraction, its a waste to travel there and back that achieves nothing but the journey. THe only science learned is how to travel there n back.
WHen you drive to work and back home, thats not science, thats another person wasting hours of time commuting, and nothing more.
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