• Beaver
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    5 months ago

    Boeing and redundancy are like oil and water

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      5 months ago

      To be fair, regarding redundancy:

      The astronauts only need seven hours of “free-flight time” to perform the end-of-mission maneuvers and Starliner currently has enough helium for 70 hours of free-flight time, Boeing said.

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        5 months ago

        Boeing said

        Do we really trust them at this point? I mean, if true that’s great, but they’ve lied before.

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          From a business point of view, I don’t think lying about this is in their best interest. If they lie to the FAA about their passenger planes, maybe they get an investigation and a fine. If they lie to NASA about the safety of Starliner, they lose their only customer for it.