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I don't think the equipment to move through an underwater tunnel designed in 5 days has any equivalence to what SpaceX has (and has always been the solution - j

I don't think the equipment to move through an underwater tunnel designed in 5 days has any equivalence to what SpaceX has (and has always been the solution - just delayed). It never made any sense to me since they do missions extremely routinely. What specifically WERE the technical reasons? If no one has them, or they are categorically provably wrong, then someone lied about it being technical.

defrost 2y ago
Starliner had issues, the backup plan was for them to join the crew and stay until "no earlier than February 2025" and be picked up by SpaceX on the crew rotation. The early February SpaceX crew rotation has been pushed back by SpaceX to late March. Wilmore and Williams flew Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the ISS last summer for an eight-day test mission that instead has lasted nearly a year because of problems with the craft’s propulsion system. NASA in August, during Biden’s administration, deemed Starliner too risky to bring them back to Earth and tapped SpaceX to return them on a Crew Dragon spacecraft. That craft is already docked with the space station, having flown there for NASA’s Crew-9 astronaut rotation mission in September with empty seats for Wilmore and Williams. The astronauts’ original February departure date on Crew-9 was delayed to late March because SpaceX needed more time “to complete processing” of a new Crew Dragon capsule that will replace theirs for the Crew-10 mission, NASA said in December. ~ https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/trump-musk-suggest-sped-up-return-nasa-astronauts-details-scarce-2025-01-29/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/trump-musk-suggest-... There's also a timeline recap in this threads submitted Ars Technica article. The political posturing here appears to originate with Musk and recently Trump has attached himself to the story.

defrost 2y ago

Starliner had issues, the backup plan was for them to join the crew and stay until "no earlier than February 2025" and be picked up by SpaceX on the crew rotation. The early February SpaceX crew rotation has been pushed back by SpaceX to late March. Wilmore and Williams flew Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft to the ISS last summer for an eight-day test mission that instead has lasted nearly a year because of problems with the craft’s propulsion system. NASA in August, during Biden’s administration, deemed Starliner too risky to bring them back to Earth and tapped SpaceX to return them on a Crew Dragon spacecraft. That craft is already docked with the space station, having flown there for NASA’s Crew-9 astronaut rotation mission in September with empty seats for Wilmore and Williams. The astronauts’ original February departure date on Crew-9 was delayed to late March because SpaceX needed more time “to complete processing” of a new Crew Dragon capsule that will replace theirs for the Crew-10 mission, NASA said in December. ~ https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/trump-musk-suggest-sped-up-return-nasa-astronauts-details-scarce-2025-01-29/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/trump-musk-suggest-... There's also a timeline recap in this threads submitted Ars Technica article. The political posturing here appears to originate with Musk and recently Trump has attached himself to the story.