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Astronauts stranded in space due to multiple issues with Boeing's Starliner — and the window for a return flight is closing (www.livescience.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't buy that at all. If you read about Apollo, and before that, you'll see that simply this stuff is hard and many times you have things "half-assed" and just take the risk. Another case is the Space Shuttle..

With that said I think Boeing has been too unreliable for manned space flight. I don't trust much the "we're just taking time to gather more data" and this to me is the bad part about private companies: they have no compulsion to be truthful to the public.