Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
And this is why, all those years ago, the Mercury and Apollo astronauts fought against a fully automatic ride without manual controls (which was NASA’s original design)
This article is worth the read. Starliner was in an extremely precarious situation that we didn’t previously know about.
There is an exorbitant of fluff in there though. Expertly so, it’s no ai slop, but someone very cleverly writing, getting payed by the word and rolling it out.
‘Thrusters failed, they turned off and on again, during that time the pilot had to manually fly it. Ironically thanks God afterwards.’
Is the gist of it, but there’s a lot of introspection, retrospection, repeating, rehashing and rephrasing. Reminded me of this Mitchell and Webb scetch
repeating, rehashing and rephrasing
Remember when writing was Prose and poetry had rhythm?
It’s okay to say words, a few times and in different order, for effect.
There was a lot more to the article than this. I’ve sat on console during launches,and reading their exchange gave me some anxiety. Trying to live troubleshoot thrusters issues would be a nightmare on an unscrewed satellite, let a lone one where it’s human rated, and the people flying it could die if you are unable to recover fast enough.
You train for this crap excessively, so everyone knows what to do, but that doesn’t make it any less nerve wracking in the moment.
I know I overstated it a bit, and there was more to it, but I’ve read the same story thrice at some point.
I want trying to downplay the astronauts archievement either, though I found them thanking the Lord over criticizing the company that made a bird so prone to failure a bit strange.
The writing style I found very curious, though it was skillfully written I think there’s art in being succinct, and that art was lacking it was almost literary edging.
but shouldn’t boeing, of all companies, known of the possible failures? this seems like the bottom line "trump"ed safety…
after reading the article, i must admit, fuck boeing…
Why was this not mentioned before?
Shareholder value. And preserving the scam of privatizing NASA’s source of earth orbit launches.
That article states it was 56 days after the incident. I meant my question as to why it was not released at the time of the incident. So unless you can show an earlier appearance, my question stands.
Furthermore, the comment immediately preceding mine stated that it was not mentioned at the time. Context matters.
Yeah, I remember reading multiple times about ppl being stuck on the ISS. Idk how ppl could miss it.
The issue is when they released the information. Not if they did.
Also the issue is about the faulty thrusters. Not them being stuck on the station. Everyone knew that.
Huh? I thought we all knew this? There’s really nothing new in the article.
