Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. Here’s what’s at stake | CNN
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Two NASA test pilots helming the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft are in a tentative position as mission teams scramble to learn more about issues that plagued the first leg of the journey.
  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    I mean, private companies have been responsible for every launch since the Soviet Union fell (unless China is fully state owned, I don’t know)

    NASA modifies equipment sometimes but they were always buying launch vehicles from private industry.

    • SinJab0n@mujico.org
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      5 months ago

      private companies have been responsible for every launch since the Soviet Union fel

      they were always buying launch vehicles from private industry.

      So… u r telling me the private sector only came after homework was done, just taking the rights to produce and sell? who could have guessed…