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NASA astronauts will have to wait until another day to launch to orbit in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. The planned launch was called off Monday night because of a problem in the Atlas V rocket that was to send them to space.

Engineers will work through the night to assess whether the two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, can get back on the launchpad on Tuesday, or if repairs will be needed that could delay the flight by at least several days.

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[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Humanity built spaceships from the ground up over 70 fucking years ago

And Soviets engineers did that with slide rulers and none of this super computer AI desgne bullshit. Russians are still using the same rockets to ferry stuff into space. It's amazing how fucking incompetent these people are.

Yes, they made a reusable rocket or some shit.

I don't think they even manage to do that. Those things Melon Husk is shooting up needs so much refurbishing that it's pointless to call them "reusable". Assuming they even manage to land and not blow up first.

It's all cooked.

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Since June 2010, rockets from the Falcon 9 family have been launched 339 times, with 337 full mission successes, two failures…

Falcon family boosters have successfully landed 303 times in 314 attempts. A total of 42 boosters have flown multiple missions, with a record of 20 missions by a booster.

Reusable rockets have been a massive advancement in space flight, should just be operated by governmental agencies, not private companies.

[–] someone@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely agreed. I think it's possible to both loathe the jackass who owns SpaceX, and also to appreciate the top-tier R&D being done by all those engineers and scientists and technicians who are doing the real work there. They're the people who just launched the most powerful rocket ever built to put the biggest spaceship ever built into near-orbit. (And the only reason they didn't put Starship in a real orbit was to make absolutely certain it would never be a debris hazard even if they lost control.)

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The success is probably due to the fact that Elon has basically zero involvement in the day-to-day operation.

Published earlier today

[–] someone@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh I can absolutely believe that. No other explanation makes sense, really.

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

We’d have a CyberShuttle^TM^ by now lol