Starliner is currently cleared to return. The astronauts are not stranded. Mission leadership has opted to extend the stay on the station because it is the best place to troubleshoot the issues they are having.
The best option I heard in the previous post on this topic was to bump two astronauts off of SpaceX's Crew-9 in August. Then Suni and Butch would stay up another 180 days and come down with Crew-9.
It’s the same for pretty much everything across the board: the “got mine” generation thinks they can take all the wealth and resources with them to the grave, leave us with the PFAS, climate change, gutted social safety net, destroyed companies, and the truth is they’ll be dead before the bill comes due.
It's not a generation, it's a type of person and a cultural attitude. The majority of older people own nothing and had no say in the running of the world.
"Got mine" generation is definitely part of it, but demanding N% returns from an economy that has GDP growth of (N/2)% (and a lot of that just paper wealth from the finance industry) is the more proximate cause.
That's overselling it a bit. The Boeing Defense, Space, & Security company is owned by Boeing, but it's a separate organization with its own CEO. Maybe there are problems, but assuming they are the same problems that Boeing Commercial Airplanes has is a stretch.
No doubt, the statements involving timelines are confusingly presented.
Departure has been delayed 3 times due to the helium leak testing, earliest they will leave is on June 26th and I think the dock can support the capsule there for 45 days or until July 28th.
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The entire company seems to have been absolutely utterly gutted.
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
That's overselling it a bit. The Boeing Defense, Space, & Security company is owned by Boeing, but it's a separate organization with its own CEO. Maybe there are problems, but assuming they are the same problems that Boeing Commercial Airplanes has is a stretch.
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Helium leak is in the trunk. They jettison that on return, so only way to debug is to stay at the station for a few a days. Well within parameters.
They are cleared to depart if an emergency.
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No, it is working exactly as designed, and the design sucks.