Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues. Here’s what’s at stake | CNN
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Two NASA test pilots helming the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft are in a tentative position as mission teams scramble to learn more about issues that plagued the first leg of the journey.
  • rcbrk@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 年前

    Huh. Even Boeing doesn’t want to be associated with Boeing:

    Boeing executives have repeatedly sought to make clear that the Starliner program operates independently from the company’s other units — including the commercial aircraft division that has been at the center of scandals for years.

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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      2 年前

      The classic rebranding ala facebook -> meta / insta, or food companies with their thousands of differently named subsidiaries.

  • doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml
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    2 年前

    Thanks, Obama. Really glad you privatized space travel. It’s going great. Our space program now consists of Guy who wants space apartheid, and company whose name is synonymous with planes that crash for no reason.