Helium leak delays Boeing’s historic Starliner mission at least another week
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Say what you will about Boeing, but they sure know how to stop a leak.
Oh. Oh, man. That's harsh. That ranks up there with the Concorde jokes that came out of the 2000 crash.
It's a keeper.
In other news engineer found dead due to asphyxia.
Yeah, an engineer, not a whistleblower, leak fixed.
What? They were able to find a problem before it took flight? That's umpossible!
It's a leak, they'll kill it quickly.
"Engineer who found helium leak found dead"
Two bullets to the back of the leak fixed everything.
Definitely suicide!
Who knew prolonged exposure to helium causes heart attacks.
So, technically, the issue might be that one of the doors wasnt properly installed?
Yes, its a very loose definition of "door".
"Welcome to a world where anything can be an open door".
-Boeing
I hope the person who discovered the leak conveyed this dire information with a hilariously high-pitched voice
https://youtu.be/orzii2h42mY?si=UYT-BfTSeI40ljPA
Boeing and leaks don't mix apparently
The crew will be remembered.
The helium leaked because the door plug on the helium tank fell off.
They also found out the liquid oxygen tank was filled with chocolate milk. Oh Boeing! 🤦
Space is hard y'all
If I were one of these people slated to take the flight I would nope the fuck out. This is what they found, how many more issues are they going to "find"(because they kept quiet about it like they always do) once this thing takes off?
Yeah there's a chance this becomes another challenger
Challenger happened because of negligence if I recall correctly and boeing issues are also happening because of negligence
Challenger happened because the engineers said they shouldn't launch because it was cold and the politicians said just do it anyway.
Replace "politicians" with "boeing" and "engineers" with "boeing staff" and its still plausible
I can’t believe they’re going through with it. The last (only orbital) test flight had serious problems.
After the first orbital test flight, they did do a second test flight which did reach the ISS.
Interesting, I don’t know how I missed that, I follow a lot of space news. Thanks for the info / correction, definitely not as crazy given the second test that reached the ISS.
Well the astronauts on the inaugural flight are from their death wish division so they accept the risks.