Quality assurance started out as a separate department with its own vice-president in charge. In the last 20 years, QA was slowly demoted, across all industries, to fall under Operations. That was the beginning of our current problems. The bean counters just couldn't stand having a group over which they had no authority.
Sorry people but people have died in space with much less problems and the fact NASA are still working on this would suggest to me they know something nobody else does and if these people die on re-entry NASA are history hence NASA not wanting them back.
I'm curious, who is going to be fired and how many will be criminally prosecuted if this return trip fails? How many in management and how many engineers are going to held accountable for their foolishness?
Everybody relax. There is a fair chance Starliner's return won't end in the horrible death of the crew. Reassuring, isn't it? Who wants to sign up for the next mission?
Because now there's a large risk the nauts might reveal the worst of conversations in their post- interviews, or books. Even if by accident. It's nothing to have insurance pay out a couple $mil to the families, with Ndas, to put the failures behind them. Imo.
Boeing cut corners and this is the result. They TRIED to save a few dollars and it cost them their REPUTATION. 🤦 In practice we TEST EVERYTHING on the ground first. We build a BRASS vehicle to endure this extra testing. This "brass" vehicle becomes their worst case scenario test bed. But I'm betting that there is NO brass vehicle for their Starliner. 🤦 That vehicle in SPACE right now is their BRASS vehicle. How STUPID is that?
I would only chose Air Bus to travel or China C919 even they have not yet get the licence to fly yet they are more safe. I wonder why the worst Boeing can get the licence to fly.
Gee they fixed Apollo 13 problems with no hands! You and others have no respect for the technology and engineering that goes into the program. You'd be the one to say not sending men to the moon or the sky is falling.
If it's so problematic they shouldn't even RISK human lives and land it remotely. The crew should get a ride home from SpaceX. Tough 💩 if it's not good for Boeing's image. 🖕😡
