glhs837
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Indeed. Chosen for just that reason. Except you dont need NASA to approve stuff, just the FAA.
Building rockets like oceangoing ships
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Indeed. Chosen for just that reason. Except you dont need NASA to approve stuff, just the FAA.
Not a complete success, but then not a complete failure either?
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Boeing’s Starliner space taxi fails to reach its intended orbit for first space station trip
Boeing's Starliner space taxi blasted off for the first time on an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station, but ran into trouble shortly after launch.
Not a complete success, but then not a complete failure either?
Boeing’s Starliner space taxi fails to reach its intended orbit for first space station trip
Boeing's Starliner space taxi blasted off for the first time on an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station, but ran into trouble shortly after launch.
An "anomaly"..is that what you lecky controls guys are calling a software bug now?
glhs837
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Not a complete success, but then not a complete failure either?
Boeing’s Starliner space taxi fails to reach its intended orbit for first space station trip
Boeing's Starliner space taxi blasted off for the first time on an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station, but ran into trouble shortly after launch.
Well, in the sense that 10% of mission objectives complete isn't complete failure. But the boost to higher orbit, ISS rendezvous, docking, offload, undocking, deorbit, and landing, all that stuff, never gets tested. Not seeing a clear path for them to get a manned flight in 2020.
Next piece of this "Muricans in Spaaaaacccccceeeee" saga picks up the 11th, when SpaceX does their Inflight Abort test, when they trigger the safe escape rockets in the Crew Dragon capsule during Max-Q. Boeing doesn't have to perform that test, not sure why. Maybe the lack of Russian rocket motors to throw away precludes it
SpaceX has already performed the test that Boeing failed today last summer. If they nail the IFA, they should be cleared for taking the first manned flight from the US
Isn't an Anomaly some sort of sea creature?An "anomaly"..is that what you lecky controls guys are calling a software bug now?
No..I believe you've confused that with enema.Isn't an Anomaly some sort of sea creature?
I do not think that word means what you think it means!
glhs837
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Nope, and here we are a bit more than 5 years later, and SpaceX has gone from building those first prototypes to launching the worlds most powerful rocket and successfully launching to what could be orbital if they added a bit more juice.
To make it more clear. In less than five years, they have gone from this... /literally welded up crews from a company that made commercial pressure tanks.
To this.......
And here's the crazy part. They are not just hand building prototypes, they are literally building an assembly line to mass produce these bu the hundreds as they prototype. Same for the engines. Normally rockets and engines are bespoke items, hand crafted by artisans. I think they might have already produced over 1,000 of the Raptor engines, which they are now making the 3rd version of already.
This level of speed and accomplishment are insane in aerospace. Kelly Johnson would be right at home, at least with those things. He was aslo pretty autocratic,so he wouldn't have survived under Musk.