(08-24-2024, 04:13 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: This is a major setback for Boeing. That company really needs to get its act together. 

What's really heartbreaking about this is two of the four astronauts who were scheduled to fly on the SpaceX crew-9 mission will now be bumped from the mission. These folks have been training for years to get this opportunity and will have to wait, perhaps a year or more, to get another chance to launch.  It. Royally. Sucks.

NASA Decides to Bring Starliner Spacecraft Back to Earth Without Crew

I think the decision to bring the craft back without the astronauts is the right choice.  I personally at this point question whether I want to fly on a Boeing aircraft or not.  I realize that many of the "mishaps" being reported are not a Boeing problem, but rather an airline maintenance problem.  However, it appears that much of Boeing's problems are caused by "engineers" sitting in front of a computer screen rather than the people that actually build these aircraft.

I hate engineers, even though that was my job title at a couple of points in my career.

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