Boeing's Crewed Starliner Just Docked To The ISS! 

Let’s just hope the two astronauts get home safely.

I’m glad they arrived safely.

Those are the bravest astronauts in awhile.

Call me old fashioned, but I like to think that what constitutes a successful testing of a spacecraft is that it met or exceeded its performance goals for the mission, not that it's myriad malfunctions happened not to constitute a threat to the spacecraft or its occupants.

I was listening to the comm traffic and was surprised about the amount of tape inside the capsule. One of the knobs had so much tape wrapped around the shaft that Suni needed to remove her gloves so she could use her fingernails to remove enough tape to be able to turn the knob. Just what you want to do in a capsule floating through the vacuum of space.

Beoing: we docked to the ISS! SpaceX: yeah, that's cute.

Don’t worry. One or two dozen problems won’t add up to anything really bad. These kinds of failures are never cumulative or cascading.

At what point do we stop paying Boeing for failures

If it's without issues it wouldn't be a Boeing flight. Just glad that the crews are safe.

Just hope they can get back safely 🤞

Boeing got the majority of the NASA money award and has continuous issues, meanwhile their competition whom got far less money blew them out of the water with Falcon 9 and Dragon, and just launched the largest rocket ever made for the 4th time. At this point Boeing is just an embarrassment.

Sounds like the MC Douglas managment leaked into their Space programm! I would never set a foot into starliner!

At this point, SpaceX sould launch a Falcon 9 with a with a crew dragon and, and let the boeing capsule re-enter the atmosphere by itself. With so many issues on their first flight, I wonder how safe it is for those astronauts to go back to Earth. Also, today's Starship launch 4 was the most amazing feat of engineering I've seen. SpaceX is a generation of aircraft ahead of boeing.

The 737 Max of spacecraft...

Sheeeesh. A real nailbiter

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At least the door stayed in place.

I hope they packed a Manned Maneuvering Unit, just in case. That way they could get out and push.

Maybe the astronauts will have to hitch a ride back in a SpaceX Dragon capsule...

I just hope that they got the new pump for recycling water up and running.

At this point these failures are unforgivable. This project is still having problems after over 4 years from when SpaceX Dragon became operational. Just terrible

"Helium leaks were an isolated problem and didn't affect other systems." Now the question is, did they lie or are they that incompetent? Honestly I don't know what is worse.

Thanks again!

Starliner one has quite a few parallels to Soyuz 1 and it has me worried. 😧

You still couldn’t pay me all the money in the world to ride in that thing I’ll take the Dragon capsule any day at least I know it’s reliable

I found it a bit funny that the video's auto-generated CC text insightfully referred to Starliner's "crude" mission multiple times. ;-)

When I saw the video of the inside of the Starliner how it looks like a cockpit of a museum aircraft from the 80s, it made sense why it had so many failures and delays for 8 years.

Additional CFT Needed before certification.

Three test flights and still problems with software, thrusters, leaks and valves. Scrap it and send a Dragon up to rescue the crew.

I thought I heard you say: the orbital lavatory, but I guess it was laboratory...😎

If I was greeting them on the ISS there is a Star Wars quote I would not be able to resist saying.

Butch and Suni looked ecstatic to get out of the Starliner

Let's Go Boeing! Seriously... I feel there's a measurable chance that this craft will not be suitable for ferrying its astronauts back to Earth. I would bet $$ that SpaceX has been contacted and things discussed, just in case.

How long have they been trying to "Iron The Bugs Out" of this thing? Just Enter the Dragon.

Sunni Williams is a Space Goddess. What guts she has in the tradition of the Best and Brightest.

Sounds like it was a better day for SpaceX than for Boeing.

I think I would rather hoop on that Wylie Coyote ACME Rocket than be on this snake bit space craft. I pray for the crew

What the heck is wrong with these guys at Boeing? Helium leak, computers not correlating information and now thrusters not working? Trying to steer a car with a faulty steering wheel is just about the same thing but in low earth orbit you just can’t ’pull over’ and seek help, you’re on your own in the most inhospitable environment possible. I’m glad the two astronauts are ok. But the main question is, can they get back safely down after their stint on the international Space Station? Only time will tell…

It’s more important to DEI hire than for thrusters to operate correctly.

This has been a good channel in the past, but I've noticed the titles lately have been worded like clickbait.

3:58 also a jebediah Kerman plush

this is serious. if NASA ok's starliner and something goes wrong in a bad way this will put the SLS program at risk indirectly. competition is good but not at the risk of human life. 2 space crafts launched this week and we all know 1 came back mostly intact as far as we know at the time of writing. starliner still needs to finish the mission. remember last time one chute failed to open.

The starliner is beginning to look like the Yugo of space craft.

Maybe we should wait for Dream Chaser. Why are they using helium for this? Afraid it might get to cold for nitrogen?, neon too expensive? And what's up with all the electronic glitches? Can Boeing not program a computer. They did great with Chitty Chitty Boeing Boeing but now we have the Boeing Bumble Buoy. It's almost as if they want it to take longer.

SpaceX will send a rescue ship to pick up the astronauts.

Nasa needa to ditch sls

I don't understand why NASA and Boing make this a supply mission as a shake down for a crewed mission. Seems bass ackwards.

Is blue origin still working on a spacecraft to get to ISS?

did he say:"orbiting lavatory"?

is SpaceX priming a dragon for a possible rescue?

What's the problem. We've been using thrusters for over over 60 years now. With all that experience it should be easy to build ones that work.

Wow this is crazy I would not trust my life with this spacecaft. I wonder if it is software causing rhe issue again.

And the guy pooped his spacesuit!! Maybe that could have been helped for "thrust"?

“If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going”. I’m sure glad NASA paid Boeing almost double the tax dollars they paid SpaceX for the Crew Dragon. Sure was $$$ well spent. 😒😒

Hope they brought a packed lunch or two. They may be staying at ISS for a while...

Not judging...just making an observation. Looking at video of Boeing and SpaceX's control rooms, and even the Chinese engineers, it's clear that the Boeing group appears far more...seasoned than their SpaceX and Chinese counterparts.

jesus... i wouldn't trust a go-kart made by boeing at this point...

looks like nasa have learned from Soviet near enough policy

Starliner should NOT be certified after this flight. Too many unexpected problems arose.

.. Starliner astronauts to Houston...we ain't get'n back on that piece of sh't...call Elon, we need a "dependable" ride home 😛

Can the astronauts refuse coming back in this boeingliner? Nasa sends empty dragon for rescue?

It still needs too get back. Good luck. Send up a Dragon

"It doesn't work. We don't understand why." "EVERYTHING IS FINE!" ***sigh***

NASA should stop spending good money after bad money. Send up a Crew Dragon to rescue the astronauts.

How do they sleep in starliner there is no boocking space

Why is it, that, if I look into comments under Starliner video, people are so salty?

Brave astronauts… Wonder if they could sleep. The ISS occupants probably had a sleepless night or two as well. Boeing still scratching their heads and rolling the dice. What a mess.

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The media is hyping these issues because it makes for a great story, They have a microscope on everything Boeing does. I'm old enough to remember the Space Shuttle, Apollo, Gemini, even Mercury. All those programs had problems and numerous glitches,..some of them quite serious. We lost 2 Shuttles, we lost 3 Astronauts on the ground in Apollo, and almost lost 3 more in space. Space is difficult. As for SpaceX, I'd say they've done well, but there's also a lot of luck involved. Don't forget, they blew up their own launch pad very recently. Don't tell me they intended to do that.

Starleaker Is a edsel

Starliner... no. Should be called the Boeing Edsel.

Send it back empty, and send up the Dragon

This thing is a death trap.

USA AOK.

These are the problems you inherit When your moon landing 50 years ago with a Commodore C64 did take place at Stan Kubrick’s movie set..

Send up a Dragon just in case. I don't trust that craft. Boeing needs to step back from human space flight, and stick to SRB's, and core boosters (?). Or just invest in SpaceX. This is one of the biggest poop shows I've seen with crewed flight.

Very well two astronauts want to go home in the earth 🌎 Difficult time the Boeing Starliner Crew Astronauts Team and Flight.

👍🖖🏽

cool

Good thing Starliner is Alot Cheaper than SpaceX,,,

Shut the hatch and detach. Problem solved.

Not another taxpayer penny to Boeing.

Maybe they should send a SpaceX to pick them up and ditch this Boeing laughing junk.

the way you talk you should have become a preacher

taking big chances and big taxpayer dollars

It sounds to me like this would not have happened in the old days of Apollo, because they didn't have software constantly evaluating performance on thrusters and automatically disabling them when they weren't 100%. Boeing needs to ratchet down the safeties on these thrusters a little. That's why 4 out of 5 could be brought back up after the manual firing. As for the leaks, Helium is a bitch to contain. And as usual, Boeing is bit in the ass by Aerojet-Rocketdyne. They have been responsible for a hell of a lot of thruster and valve problems. SpaceX is wise to be vertically integrated as a company, since that makes them internally responsible for QC on all their hardware. Even with that, if a material supplier cuts corners, like on the Falcon 9 explosion due to a substandard strut, your company can end up with an embarrassing failure. SpaceX has had its own problems with frozen thrusters, etc, but they were mostly ironed-out on the Cargo Spacecraft, and many Elon fanboys are more than willing to overlook anything negative about SpaceX. Boeing is just under the microscope because of failures in an entirely different division (basically another company), and the fact that they are cutting their new teeth on a MANNED spacecraft rather than a cargo vehicle. You can bet Dream Chaser will not have every single problem blasted across every headline, since their vehicle is cargo only.

Just worry about returning in that tin can

Talk about space junk Boeing starliner? How about Boeing Pinto? Edsel? I want to know what these American Cosmonauts are getting for a bonus they should ride SpaceX back. Does it remind you of Challenger?

Wokeliner

The Indian astronaut looks like a real dope. Sad.

Bad ship.

Spaceship x will encounter same problems as the Starlighter did. Space X does not go through rigorous process to go ahead and validate the process, therefore they are not the same.

From Boeing to Boring😂

We are very critical of starliner, here, which just successfully carried two humans to the ISS. Starship, on the other hand, just burned up and crashed into the ocean. Again. Huge success. Is this intentionally a SpaceX cheerleading channel or did you just become that way over time?

Failedliner

I’d recommend change the way of speaking if you wanna more viewers. The voice sounds creapy frankly.

Starliner has a helium leak but successfully docks. "OMG what a disaster." Starship has a burn through of its flaps during reentry and it's a miracle it doesn't disintegrate before it lands. "OMG what a success!" (Note I'm not knocking Starship. I'm just tired of hearing the Internet whining about Starliner.)

You .and like Elon Musk 😂😂😂

Short memories for Elon fans. Fully tax payer funded for Elon to continue to be wealthy at the expense of hard working Americans. Still yet to achieve anything on schedule or on budget.

Seriously? Someone did not have the sense enough to put their Nasty hair back into at least a pony tail! Never mind the idea of respect for others! Who wants some stanky hair in their face?