> Unexpected behavior for NASA was broken enough to send it back empty. It's not a question of broken / not-broken. It's a question of known-risk / unknown-ris

> Unexpected behavior for NASA was broken enough to send it back empty. It's not a question of broken / not-broken. It's a question of known-risk / unknown-risk. The return mission had too much of the latter. I'm as much of a Boeing skeptic as anyone here, but the knee-jerk-ism to vilify them over this is unreasonable. NASA manages risk. SpaceX blows up rockets, so they can move fast, until they get it right. Boeing is trying to operate as a legacy space company (read: endlessly trying to reduce risk) while also competing with SpaceX. I'm glad they launched Starliner for a crewed mission! No one died, because it was safe enough. No one would have died, had they returned on it, because it was safe enough. And why should NASA have delayed a manned test flight further when there was an acceptable Plan B?