Here’s the update.
I wish it was better news, but this is reality at this point:
…Time and again Nasa officials were asked what they might learn that would reassure them that they would have a safe return despite the problems with the thruster system.
Each time they did not have an answer to that question.
Dr Simeon Barber, a space scientist at the Open University believes that there won’t be a new piece of information that will reassure those at the space agency who have concerns.
“It seems that there are decision makers at Nasa who are unconvinced that a safe return can be guaranteed, which is why they have brought in experts to look through the data to try and diagnose the fault in a small component in a complex propulsion system that is in space.
“It is hard to see how that will be possible, so it feels to me that we are heading inexorably towards a return on SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft”.
That is not a view shared by Boeing, who have repeatedly said they have full confidence in Starliner to bring Butch and Suni home safely….
Onward, but I no longer think that Suni and Butch will be allowed to ride a Soyuz home this Fall. Ugh.
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