Post by gato on May 21, 2022 6:43:03 GMT -5
Boeing's glitch plagued Starliner "space taxi" on Friday, finally sputtered and wheezed to an unmanned docking with the International Space Station, a mere two years behind schedule.
Bristling at the suggestion that the lumbering Starliner is Boeing's ugly stepsister to the 737 meat-baller, Steve Stich, manager of NASA's commercial crew program, breezily dismissed the nail biting problems that occurred during the launch. "We stuck a bunch of redundant thrusters on the thing just in case something went sideways. Even a Cordon Bleu chef keeps a fire extinguisher handy."
Critics have compared the bloated government funded Starliner program unfavorably, to the proven Space X Crew Dragon, as "the 1588 Spanish Armada vs England's far smaller and more nimble warships."
As far as the first upcoming manned launch of the Starliner ... "no one was willing to risk a half dozen chimpanzees, so we're doing some intensive recruiting among death row inmates all over the country. "It's tough, because all we can offer as a last meal aboard the Starliner, is a tube of avocado paste with a Tang chaser."
spacenews.com/starliner-docks-with-iss-for-the-first-time/
Bristling at the suggestion that the lumbering Starliner is Boeing's ugly stepsister to the 737 meat-baller, Steve Stich, manager of NASA's commercial crew program, breezily dismissed the nail biting problems that occurred during the launch. "We stuck a bunch of redundant thrusters on the thing just in case something went sideways. Even a Cordon Bleu chef keeps a fire extinguisher handy."
Critics have compared the bloated government funded Starliner program unfavorably, to the proven Space X Crew Dragon, as "the 1588 Spanish Armada vs England's far smaller and more nimble warships."
As far as the first upcoming manned launch of the Starliner ... "no one was willing to risk a half dozen chimpanzees, so we're doing some intensive recruiting among death row inmates all over the country. "It's tough, because all we can offer as a last meal aboard the Starliner, is a tube of avocado paste with a Tang chaser."
spacenews.com/starliner-docks-with-iss-for-the-first-time/
